Nursing Home/Skilled Nursing Facility

This is a clinical process measure that assesses falls prevention in older adults. The measure has three rates:

A) Screening for Future Fall Risk:
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older who were screened for future fall risk at least once within 12 months



B) Falls Risk Assessment: 
Percentage of patients aged 65 years and older with a history of falls who had a risk assessment for falls completed within 12 months

C) Plan of Care for Falls: 

Percentage of patient visits for those patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of heart failure with quantitative results of an evaluation of both current level of activity and clinical symptoms documented

Percentage of residents with a valid target assessment and one of the following inclusion criteria: 1.Impaired in mobility or transfer on the target assessment
2. Comatose on the target assessment
3. Suffer malnutrition on the target assessment who have pressure ulcers

Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of hypertension with a blood pressure <140/90 mm Hg OR patients with a blood pressure >= 140/90 mm Hg and prescribed 2 or more anti-hypertensive medications during the most recent office visit within a 12 month period

Percent of nursing home/ skilled nursing facility residents given the influenza vaccination during the flu season.

Percentage of residents with a valid target assessment and not qualifying as high risk who frequently lose control of their bowel or bladder

De.2. Brief description of measure
Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) of healthcare-associated, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) will be calculated among patients in the following patient care locations:
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs) (excluding patients in neonatal ICUs [NICUs: Level II/III and Level III nurseries])
• Specialty Care Areas (SCAs) - adult and pediatric: long term acute care, bone marrow transplant, acute dialysis, hematology/oncology, and solid organ transplant locations

Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) of healthcare-associated, central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) will be calculated among patients in the following patient care locations:
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs)
• Specialty Care Areas (SCAs) - adult and pediatric: long term acute care, bone marrow transplant, acute dialysis, hematology/oncology, and solid organ transplant locations

Percentage of daily work in hours by the entire group of nurses or nursing assistants spent tending to residents

Percent of nursing home/skilled nursing facility residents whose pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) status is up to date during the 12-month reporting period.