Wednesday, September 20, 2017: 11:15 AM-12:15 PM
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Faculty:
Lee Goldberg, JD
,The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC
,
Deborah Waldrop, PhD, LMSW
,University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Buffalo, NY
,
Donna Dugan, PhD, MS
,Discern Health, Baltimore, MD
and
Katy Barnett, MPS
,The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, with support from Discern Health, sought to identify a small number of setting-specific quality measures applicable to various types of serious illness that could be immediately implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for relevant Medicare quality programs. Working closely with a multi stakeholder expert panel and building on previous measurement initiatives, the team identified and prioritized gaps among current Medicare measures for the home health, hospice, hospital, and nursing home settings and recommended measures that could fill these gaps. The panel also identified areas where new measures need to be developed, validated, and implemented in order to drive improvements in the care of seriously ill patients.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the conceptual framework for analyzing the measurement of care for people with serious illness
2. Discuss existing measures in hospice, home health, hospital and nursing home settings
3. Identify steps federal policymakers and individual providers can take to improve quality measurement for seriously ill populations