Training Updates for LTCH QRP

Long Term Care Hospital Provider Training Event in Baltimore, MD (web-streaming not available)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be hosting a 2-day training event on Thursday, November 19, and Friday, November 20, 2015, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel in Baltimore, MD.  The event will start at 8:45 a.m. ET and end at 5:00 p.m. ET each day and will be open to all Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) providers, associations, and organizations.

The focus of the train-the-trainer training hosted by CMS on November 19, 2015, is to provide LTCHs with assessment-based data collection instructions and updates associated with the changes in the April 1, 2016 release of the LTCH CARE Data Set  V 3.0 and  other reporting requirements of the LTCH Quality Reporting Program (QRP).

  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will present on November 20, 2015, on current and new quality measures as well as the use of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) for submitting data associated with these measures.

Please click here to register for the November 2015 LTCH QRP Provider Training. Please also visit the LTCH QRP Spotlight and Announcements page for the expanded announcement and additional information.

Any attendees requesting reasonable accommodations must send an email to  Glenna Davis atGDavis@econometricainc.com and carol.bowers@cms.hhs.gov no later than 5 business days prior to the event.