Home Health
As Missouri's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, Primaris' goal is to help home health agencies plan and implement Outcome Based Quality Improvement (OBQI) activities. Such activities advance patient care and help agencies achieve the goal of the right care for every patient, every time.
Regional MeetingsFor more information on Primaris' Home Health Regional Meetings, click here. |
Primaris provides benefits, free of charge, to Medicare-certified home health agencies interested in participating in Home Health OBQI. These benefits include: consultation on interpreting OBQI reports, methodology for care process investigation, review of action plans, feedback on barriers to implementation, best practice ideas from other agencies, access to an interactive listserv and additional resources to improve care.
Currently Primaris provides a wide variety of resources to assist agencies in their efforts. Topics include (click each for more information):- OBQI Basics
- Acute Care Hospitalization/Emergent Care Provided
- Ambulation/Locomotion
- Bathing
- Culture Change
- Discharge to Community
- Dyspnea
- Falls
- Immunization
- Management of Oral Medication
- Pain
- Status of Surgical Wounds
- Telehealth
- Transferring (Bed)
- Urinary Incontinence
For Primaris tools and resources, visit our products page or, for other clinical tools and resources, click here.
Teresa Northcutt, RN, BSN |
Sandy Morgan, RN |