Your facility has been assigned to the 2020 Decreasing LTC QIA: Steering Committee

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 years 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 written and verbal participation in the Qsource ESRD Strategies taskforce (termed Vascular Access Management Learning and Action Network or VAM LAN), contribution to the development of staff and patient dialysis access education, and sharing strategies to improve communication with local healthcare providers. Please consider these when selecting your project lead and co-lead. Please Note-To fulfill the components of the 2020 Decreasing LTC Steering Committee, one of your Project Lead designations must be a Patient Care Technician or CCHT.

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* 1. Facility CCN and Facility Name

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* 2. Primary Project Lead Name

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* 3. Primary Project Lead Email

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* 4. Secondary Project Lead Name

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* 5. Secondary Project Lead Email

Please review the following QIA requirements with your project team and return to the Qsource ESRD Network Quality Improvement Team by December 27, 2019.
Submission of this electronic form indicates that you have read and agreed to the following:
  • Identify staff member(s) who will oversee the project activities
  • Share QIA goals and progress with the interdisciplinary team during your clinic’s monthly QAPI meetings, with direct patient care staff within your clinic's monthly QAPI meetings AND with patients to encourage engagement
  • Active participation in project webinars, LAN calls, and completion of all monthly reporting measures
  • Identify a QIA Patient Ambassador to promote patient engagement in the facility and facilitate peer to peer education related to this QIA

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* 6. Please fill in all the fields below to the best of your ability. The project lead and co-lead will be the first point of contact for the QIA, but we would like to know who your interdisciplinary team members are:

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