QAPI Foundations Workshop
IHCA's Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Foundations Workshop is designed for long-term care providers seeking to build a strong, sustainable quality improvement culture.
This on-demand, team-based training guides participants through five essential modules, equipping them to create a data-driven, systems-based approach to QAPI that enhances resident care, ensures regulatory compliance and improves organizational outcomes.
What you'll learn:
By completing this workshop, your team will be able to:
- Identify the key components of the QAPI program
- Clarify team roles and responsibilities for collaborative, actionable improvement
- Use data to drive decision-making and monitor progress
- Apply proven quality improvement tools and methodologies, including performance improvement projects (PIPs) and root cause analysis (RCA)
- Foster a team culture of continuous process improvement
Who should participate:
- Administrators
- Directors of Nursing
- Department leaders
- QAA Committee members
- Any long-term care staff responsible for quality, compliance or resident care improvement
Workshop features:
- Five engaging, bite-sized on-demand video modules (approximately 30 minutes each)
- Comprehensive Action Plan Worksheet for facility-specific planning
- Competency questions to reinforce learning and accountability
- Practical tools, templates and CMS regulatory resources
- Discussion prompts and implementation strategies for team collaboration
Workshop modules:
- The What, the Why and the Key Regulatory Components
- Assessment and Structuring the Plan
- Leveraging Systems Thinking for Data-Driven Leadership Meetings
- Enhancing Quality Through the Performance Improvement Methodology
- Fostering a Team Culture of Continuous Process Improvement
How to engage:
This workshop is designed for hands-on, team-based engagement. Teams are encouraged to meet at least weekly to review modules, complete assigned tasks and drive progress. Built-in pause points foster discussion, action planning and problem-solving using your own facility’s data. Click here to view an informational flyer.
Access all materials on-demand and begin advancing your QAPI program today!