Slide presentations, agenda, and additional materials from LTQA’s 4th Annual Conference, “Integrating LTSS from a Person’s Perspective–Across Time and Setting” are available below. Final Conference Agenda Nancy Thaler: To Be Person and Family-Centered Panel 2: LTSS Integration in Health Plans and Health Systems Panel 3: Measuring Success Panel 4: Scaling up Success Standardized Interoperable Information Slides Handout HL7 Jan 2014 … Read More
Proceedings from LTQA’s 3rd Annual Meeting
Conference Proceedings from LTQA’s 3rd Annual Meeting, “Building Bridges across the Continuum to Achieve Person-Centered Care,” are now available. Attendees from around the U.S. came together to share best practices and broaden their knowledge of innovative approaches in delivering and financing long-term services and supports, and to discuss Blending medical and long-term services and supports; Managing and optimizing the costs … Read More
Improving Medicare’s Post Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Hill Briefing Materials
On June 23, the National Coalition on Health Care and Long Term Quality Alliance convened for a briefing on the Improving Medicare’s Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act. Participants discussed the importance of standardizing data in post-acute settings. The IMPACT Act would lay the foundation for comparing quality across settings, improving discharge planning, and modernizing post-acute care payments by requiring post-acute … Read More
Final Roundtable Report: Charting a Path Forward for Uniform Assessment of LTSS Needs
LTQA has finalized its report from the May 6th meeting, entitled “Charting a Path Forward for Uniform Assessment of LTSS Needs”. This report identifies a series of follow-on activities to develop broader support for the use of standardized assessment items. The report can be found here.
LTQA Roundtable: Charting a Path Forward for Uniform Assessment of LTSS Needs
On May 5th and May 6th at the Brookings Institution, LTQA convened a Roundtable, sponsored by the SCAN Foundation, to discuss “Charting a Path Forward for Uniform Assessment of LTSS Needs.” The purpose of the Roundtable was to achieve expert consensus around core domains, concepts and items in assessment instruments, and to develop a concrete plan for moving standardization forward. The … Read More
LTQA-NCHC Hill Briefing
On April 24th, LTQA cosponsored a briefing on Capitol Hill with the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) on “Integrating Medical Care, Behavioral Health and Long-Term Services and Supports: Finding a Path Toward Sustainability.” The briefing offered practical examples of the kind of LTSS service delivery system envisioned in the recommendations of the recent Commission on Long-Term Care: a person- … Read More
