Decreasing Long-Term Catheters Quality Improvement Activity - Acknowledgement Form |
Your facility has been assigned to the 2020 Decreasing LTC QIA
This QIA is designed to decrease the rate of dialysis patients utilizing a central venous catheter for greater than ninety days. We will accomplish this year’s outlined CMS goal through sharing best practices, improving processes used for permanent access placement and/or intervention, long-term catheter education and awareness, improved communication with local healthcare providers, and directing interventions toward patients to allow them the ability to impact their own care.
This quality improvement activity is a CMS initiative; therefore, your active participation is mandatory. We hope that you find this project to be a useful addition to your ongoing quality improvement measures and we appreciate your efforts toward making the project successful.
This QIA will involve several components, including decreasing long-term catheter rates, improving methods of staff and patient dialysis access education, and improving communication with local healthcare providers. Please consider these components when selecting your project lead and co-lead.
This quality improvement activity is a CMS initiative; therefore, your active participation is mandatory. We hope that you find this project to be a useful addition to your ongoing quality improvement measures and we appreciate your efforts toward making the project successful.
This QIA will involve several components, including decreasing long-term catheter rates, improving methods of staff and patient dialysis access education, and improving communication with local healthcare providers. Please consider these components when selecting your project lead and co-lead.