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SNF Continuing Education

SNF Continuing Education

Knowledge is power. Shared knowledge is transformative power. Coretactics’ SNF Continuing Education programs share decades of accumulated knowledge. Our goal is to raise the quality of skilled nursing facilities throughout the country. We take pride in seeing our client’s rise to new levels of excellence. Let us know how we might help your SNF.

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Continuing Education Courses

Based on your needs, Coretactics will customize a continuing education program to provide your SNF team essential knowledge. The following list includes our most requested educational topics but is not all inclusive. We offer on-site training, remote training, or training to small groups at our office in lovely upstate New York.

(CEUs available upon request.)

  • CMS Five Star / Quality Measures – When analyzing the three domains of CMS Five Star Rating (Health Inspections, Staffing and Quality Measures) it can become overwhelming. However, your standing in the competitive marketplace depends on these outcomes. Coretactics will assist you in meeting your goals through:
    • Survey Readiness Audits that will improve your survey outcomes,
    • Staffing Analysis to ensure adequate staffing levels, and;
    • MDS 3.0 & Quality Measure training to improve accuracy.
  • Conducting Investigations (Abuse) – When conducting an abuse investigation, it often leads to deficiencies due to a lack of understanding the reporting requirements or lack of a thorough investigation. Coretactics teaches their step-by-step approach to conducting a seamless investigation and offers tools to ensure compliance.
  • Dementia Care & Management / Person Centered Care – Bring quality of care for your dementia residents to a new level utilizing an approach grounded in culture change called OASIS. This innovative program significantly improves resident quality of life, reduces antipsychotic medication use and improves job satisfaction for staff. Our OASIS Master Trainer will teach your interdisciplinary team this innovative approach and align your facility with the CMS initiative to improve dementia care.
  • Documentation – Whether it is to support your billing claim or the provision of quality care, accurate documentation is a core component necessary to protect your facility legally and financially. Our proven systems and comprehensive training give staff the structure they need to produce documentation that supports the care they provide.
  • Falls Prevention – QAPI elements, including root-cause analysis and Performance Improvement Projects, can be used to develop & implement strategies and processes that will effectively improve quality of care through falls prevention and individualized care planning. These processes will at the same time reduce alarm and restraint use.
  • Incidents & Accidents – Reviewing Incidents & Accidents can be a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. Our training will give your team the tools and resources to determine primary causative factors using a methodical process balanced on RCA. Outcomes will allow for appropriate care plan changes that will prevent future accidents to decrease the administrative burden of investigations and keep your residents safe.
  • Infection Prevention & Control – Ensuring your policies and staff are compliant with infection control standards and regulations is essential to protecting your residents and avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations and citations. Through policy review, staff competency audits and education, facilities can not only control the spread of infection but can more effectively prevent it.
  • Leadership / Management Skills
  • MDS 3.0 / CAAs / Care Planning – Performance on the publicly reported CMS Quality Measures and Five Star Rating is critical to your standing in the marketplace. The expertise, training and proven processes Coretactics offers will give your team an understanding of the reports matrix and the ability to ensure accurate reporting.
  • Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) – Submitting accurate staffing data can be a challenge. Coretactics provides training to ensure understanding of the PBJ reporting requirements and conducts PBJ data reviews so you can be confident you are in compliance with local and federal staffing mandates and avoid negative impacts to your CMS Quality Metrics and Five Star Rating on Care Compare.
  • Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) – Coretactics staff are certified in MDS and offer individualized training in MDS coding, CMS Quality Measure methodology, and PDPM. Our MDS audits will ensure documentation supports your billing claims and reflects accurate reimbursement.
  • Psychotropic Medication Reduction  – Implement processes that will help staff identify changes in clinical conditions in a timely manner, improve interdisciplinary communication, develop proactive clinical pathways for common diagnoses, and avoid hospital re-admissions and emergency department transfers.
  • Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) & Data Management – QAPI amounts to much more than a provision in Federal regulation; it represents an ongoing, organized method of doing business to achieve optimum results, involving all levels of an organization. Let us help you organize your QAPI program and data collection systems to ensure you identify opportunities for improvement in a timely manner.
  • Reducing Re-hospitalizations – Implement processes that will help staff identify changes in clinical conditions in a timely manner, improve interdisciplinary communication, develop proactive clinical pathways for common diagnoses, and avoid hospital re-admissions and emergency department transfers that can negatively impact your CMS Five Star and value based purchasing performance..
  • Reimbursement – Many providers question if they are receiving accurate reimbursement for the care they are providing. Coretactics conducts comprehensive systems analysis to ensure there are no gaps that could negatively impact reimbursement.
  • Restraint Reduction / Alarm Reduction – Evidence-based studies correlate restraints and alarms to poor quality outcomes (i.e. depression, skin breakdown, confusion, incontinence, and behaviors). Our systematic approach to the initiation and reduction of restraints and alarms will improve your residents’ quality of life, reduce environmental noise, and help prevent falls.
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) – RCA transforms an old culture that reacts to problems into a new culture that solves problems before they occur. We will work with your team to develop RCA skills so you can implement accurate performance improvement plans that target the core issue saving time and resources.
  • Survey Preparedness – A service that delivers pre-survey audits for your key performance areas to ensure clinical and regulatory compliance. Coretactics will work with your team to implement plans for correcting identified opportunities as well as monitoring systems to help you sustain your improvement.
  • Value Based Purchasing (VBP) / Quality Reporting Program (QRP) – Both the Quality Reporting Program (QRP) and Value Based Purchasing (VBP) are data collection processes that impact Medicare payment in addition producing quality data available to the public through Nursing Home Compare. Our approach includes education for your leadership team on the methodology behind these programs and strategies for improvement. Remote auditing by our experts is available to ease your administrative burden and provide streamlined communication with your team when opportunities to improve facility performance are identified.
  • Wound Care – Pressure Injury Management – Pressure injury prevention is key! If your staff needs training on current best practice or you need assistance updating your Skin Care Program, we have the experience to walk you through it. Our systems allow you to track skin issues in real time and address areas for improvement in a timely manner.

If you’re looking for something you do not see listed above, please contact us.