Each facility is responsible for compliance with survey data submission. All Wisconsin Medicare certified hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, are required to report survey data to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) annually, based on their Fiscal Year End. WHAIC collects data pursuant to Chapter 153 of the State Statutes and subject to all terms and conditions as described in ss. DHS 120. Failure to comply with the reporting requirements may result in financial penalties to the organization.
Each facility is responsible for compliance with survey data submission. All Wisconsin Medicare certified hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, are required to report survey data to the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center (WHAIC) annually, based on their Fiscal Year End. WHAIC collects data pursuant to Chapter 153 of the State Statutes and subject to all terms and conditions as described in ss. DHS 120. Failure to comply with the reporting requirements may result in financial penalties to the organization.
Behavioral health challenges continue to grow within our communities and healthcare organizations. As those challenges grow, what are the leading practices that communities and healthcare organizations have developed to keep patients and staff safe and meet the increasing demands. As organizations come together to help solve the crisis for behavioral health patients, the patients truly receive the care they need at the right time and at the right location. This webinar will focus on practices like collaboration on community resources, streamlining care within the community and emergency departments, telemedicine utilization, and managing workplace violence – as well as the positive impacts they are having on caring for behavioral health population.
This training provides an introduction to, as well as highlights of, the WIpop manual, the WHAIC website, and data submission tools. It also covers common submission questions, any notable changes to the submission process and any issues or hot topics we address throughout the year. The opportunity will also be given to get to know the WHAIC staff and to ask them questions.
A University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing team consulted with hospital staff and leadership, family caregivers of people living with dementia and community agencies during a two-year study. They will share those needs identified by hospital staff and family caregivers, and the team’s user-centered approach to developing dementia friendly training materials. They will also share how the resulting Dementia Friendly Hospital Toolkit can be used to develop and implement an organization-wide plan to increase staff awareness and skills to meet the needs of patients living with dementia and their family caregivers.
The Dementia Friendly Hospital Toolkit includes:
- An organizational guide that helps hospitals develop an ongoing training plan based on their goals and learning opportunities
- Eight interactive role play scenarios, with learning objectives, facilitator guides, scripts, handouts, and options for carrying out role play trainings
- Five short training videos, with learning objectives, handouts, and options for using the videos
- Additional resources that help hospitals measure progress, align their dementia friendly work with Age-Friendly Health Systems initiatives, and provide additional context on the common needs of and supports for people living with dementia and their family caregivers.
This online seminar will discuss the new interpretative guidelines for QAPI that were published in March 2023, the QAPI program conditions of participation for critical access hospitals that were effective March 30, 2021, and the changes made to the conditions of participation for general acute hospitals that went into effect Nov. 29, 2019. This is one of three conditions of participation for which CMS has published a worksheet to guide surveyors through the process to determine whether hospitals comply with this condition.
Population health management (PHM) is a framework that aims to improve a population’s health by focusing on the health needs of individuals. Effective PHM is crucial in the healthcare industry because it can reduce costs, improve quality, and enhance patient outcomes. Additionally, it can help reduce health disparities and achieve equity in health outcomes. In this session, we will discuss the importance of effective population health management in healthcare and its relationship with equity in health outcomes.
A WHA Hospital Member Only Webinar
Advocacy, on behalf of its hospital members, is WHA’s #1 priority. However, did you know that there are other benefits to your membership? Are you taking full advantage of all your available opportunities? Join us for an informative and interactive webinar on December 10 from 10:00 – 11:30AM to learn more. Join some of WHA’s Senior Staff members as they share the services their respective areas within the organization offer as part of your annual hospital membership. Currently scheduled to present are:
Nadine Allen, Chief Quality Officer
Brian Competente, Vice President Information Center and Privacy Officer
Jon Hoelter, Vice President Federal and State Relations
Kari Hofer, Vice President External Affairs
Leigh Ann Larson, Vice President Education and Marketing
Matthew Stanford, JD, MHA, General Counsel
Ann Zenk, RN, BSN, MHA, Sr. Vice President, Workforce and Clinical Practice
Health system executives frequently struggle with how to summarize the success (or lack thereof) of their health systems overall performance and lack a defined metric to align organizational goals around. HSG developed Patient Share of Care in collaboration with Academic and Community Hospitals to create a single metric measuring the health system’s acquisition of patient lives and retention of those patients within their network of Inpatient, Outpatient and Ambulatory care. This webinar will cover an overview of Patient Share of Care, as well as explore alternatives for how it is calculated and utilized by health systems of varying sizes and geographies.