Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes
http://www.nhqualitycampaign.org
Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes
is a new coalition based, two-year campaign that launched
in September 2006. The campaign is reinvigorating efforts to improve
the quality of care and quality of life for those living or recuperating
in America's nursing homes.
CMS
Nursing Home Compare
http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/home.asp
The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information
about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified
nursing home in the country.
Long Term Care Quality Reporting System
http://facilityquality.dhs.state.tx.us
The Texas Department of Human Services (TDHS) offers the information
in this web site to help you evaluate the quality of long term
care services.
TX Dept. of Human Services LTC Policy
http://www.dads.state.tx.us/providers/index.cfm
This site provides information about a variety of long-term care
programs in Texas for people who are elderly as well as adults
and children who have disabilities.
National Association of Boards of Examiners of
Long Term Care Administrators (NAB)
http://www.nabweb.org
TDHS Long Term Care Helpful Telephone Numbers
http://www.dads.state.tx.us/contact/toll-free.html
Nursing Facility Issues, Survey Issues - Long-Term Care Regulatory,
Office of Program Integrity, Minimum Data Set (MDS), and NHIC
Telephone numbers
TDADS Handbooks
http://www.dads.state.tx.us/news_info/publications/handbooks/index.html#handbooks
TX Dept. of Public Safety Crime Records Service
http://records.txdps.state.tx.us
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has established this
Web site as the official Internet source for information about
criminal convictions, deferred adjudications and sex offender
registrations. The information contained in this site is public
record.
PublicData.com
http://www.publicdata.com
PublicData.com is committed to providing quick, accurate, and
complete access to all public records, paid for and/or maintained
at its source with tax dollars, to all members of the public.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://cms.hhs.gov
Texas LTC-R Joint Training
http://www.dads.state.tx.us/providers/training/jointtraining.cfm
Long Term Care Regulatory Education Services is now providing
monthly training sessions around the state for both providers
and surveyors. The information in this section is designed to
give providers and surveyors a list of joint training classes
currently being offered, a registration process to attend these
classes, and a vehicle to solicit your input on future training
efforts.
TDHS Quality Matters
http://mqa.dhs.state.tx.us/QMWeb
Quality in Long Term Care means doing the right thing in the right
way at the right time for the right person in order to achieve
the best possible outcome. The DHS Quality Matters (QM) web is
a training resource of evidence-based practices meant to help
providers of Long Term Care (LTC) achieve just that.
Texas Medical Foundation
http://www.tmf.org/nursinghomes
Texas Medical Foundation's initiative to improve the quality of
care in nursing homes. TMF is a private, nonprofit organization
of licensed physicians (MDs and DOs) whose purpose is to promote,
develop, define, and encourage the delivery of high quality medical
care and health services, while promoting efficient, cost-effective
health care.
CMS E-Learning
http://cms.internetstreaming.com
Webcast
courses, live and archived. Includes mandatory training
for surveyors, open to the public.
Official HIPAA Site
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa
US Department of Health and Human Services official HIPPA website.
Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership's (TMHP)
http://www.tmhp.com
The
Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership's (TMHP) Internet
website for the Texas Medicaid Program
Texas Medicaid Program
http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/Medicaid/index.html
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