REGISTER TODAY: National Skilled Nursing and Post-Acute Care Leaders Provide Update on Quality of Care in America's Nursing Facilities
Alliance and AHCA partner with leading quality experts to detail positive trends in nursing home quality and identify key areas of focus for future quality efforts
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, October 12, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care and American Health Care Association will host a teleconference featuring leading experts in post-acute and skilled nursing care to present data and recommendations from the 2011 Annual Quality Report, which serves as a comprehensive review of the quality of care in America's nursing and rehabilitation facilities.
In addition to presenting data that illustrate positive trends in quality, the report addresses the rehabilitation capabilities of SNFs and trends in rehabilitative care, while discussing recommendations for the development of quality measures to evaluate rehabilitation outcomes. The report also addresses approaches to improving care transitions and reducing hospital readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries.
Who:
Alan Rosenbloom, President, Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care
David Gifford, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, American Health Care Association
Andrew Kramer, MD, CEO Providigm, LLC & Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado
Kathleen O'Connell and Sally Prendergast, Avalere Health LLC
When:
October 12, 2011
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. ET
Where:
Via Teleconference
1-800-230-1074
Call Name: Quality Report Teleconference
Registration: To register for the teleconference, please send your name, phone and email address to Megan Taylor at [email protected].
About the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care
The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (The Alliance) is a coalition of 12 leading post-acute and long term care organizations providing quality skilled nursing care to American seniors and disabled in approximately 1,400 facilities in 44 states nationwide. Learn more at www.aqnhc.org.
About the American Health Care Association
As the nation's largest association of long term and post-acute care providers, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) advocates for quality care and services for frail, elderly and disabled Americans. Compassionate and caring employees provide essential care to one million individuals in our 11,000 not-for-profit and proprietary member facilities. Learn more at www.ahca.org.
SOURCE Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care
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