Eleven member facilities of the Alabama Nursing Home Association were recognized today for achievements in health care quality at the American Health Care Association’s (AHCA) 6th Annual Quality Symposium in New Orleans, LA.
South Haven Health & Rehabilitation Center in Montgomery was recognized for achieving all four quality goals set forth by AHCA’s Quality Initiative. It is one of only 68 facilities nationwide to meet all four goals.
The following facilities are part of the 448 that were recognized nationally for achieving three of the four AHCA Quality Initiative goals:
• Capitol Hill Healthcare Center, Montgomery
• Cedar Crest, Montgomery
• Fairfield Nursing & Rehab Center, Fairfield
• Glenwood Healthcare, Florence
• Golden LivingCenter Lanett, Lanett
• Grand Bay Convalescent Home, Grand Bay
• Jacksonville Health & Rehab, Jacksonville
• South Haven Health & Rehab, Birmingham
• West Gate Village, Brewton
• Westside Terrace Health & Rehab Center, Dothan
The AHCA Quality Symposium is an interactive and hands-on educational event that focuses on continuous quality improvement and its specific methodologies. Seminar tracks include leadership, measurement and analysis and improving performance. The quality achievers were recognized during a special luncheon.
The AHCA Quality Initiative aims to further improve the lives of individuals receiving care in skilled nursing centers by setting measurable goals in four, key areas of quality of care:
• safely reduce hospital re-admissions within 30 days during a skilled nursing stay by 15 percent by March 2015;
• increase staff stability by reducing nursing staff turnover by 15 percent by March 2015;
• increase customer satisfaction by having 90 percent of residents and families willing to recommend their center to others by March 2015; and
• safely reduce the off-label use of anti-psychotics by 15 percent by the end of 2013.
For more information on how Alabama is safely reducing the off-label use of anti-psychotics, click here.
As a voluntary program, participating facilities submit staff turnover data and customer satisfaction results to AHCA, while the national association analyzes the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Minimum Data Set statistics on hospital re-admissions and anti-psychotics.
For more information about AHCA’s Quality Initiative, visit qualityinitiative.ahcancal.org.
