LeadingAge Missouri Needs You!… To Respond to a Member Survey

Next week a survey to support your association’s strategic planning process will arrive by email. Ten minutes for ten questions is all we ask. But your membership association’s future planning must be based on the needs and wants of its members. Please watch for the quick digital survey and help your association better serve you by sharing thoughtful insight and input. Thank you members!

Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences (Webinar)

Sponsored by Missouri Association of LTC Practitioners

LA MO members are invited to learn from MALTCP and Dr. Charles Crecelius on Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 PM via Zoom for: TPOPP/POLST: A Better Way to Honor Patient Preferences and Code Status Starting in 2025

 
TPOPP (Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences) will have full ambulance indemnity in Missouri as of December 31, 2024, and thereafter it will likely be more widely used by hospitals, emergency rooms, nursing homes, and other entities.  The webinar will cover:

• What is TPOPP/POLST and how does it differ from OHDNR?
• Filling out a TPOPP/POLST form
• Special considerations including storing, reviewing, signing, modifying and voiding TPOPP/POLST
• Billing for Advance Care Planning visits that address TPOPP/POLST

If you wish to attend, please complete the Google Form at this link  FILL OUT IN GOOGLE FORMS to receive a registration link/invite closer to the seminar date.

Top Deficiencies Report – 3rd Quarter 2024

You may now review the most frequently cited deficiencies report from the 3rd quarter 2024. If your community is facing challenges with regulatory compliance, we encourage you to contact LeadingAge Missouri.  We can provide resources, education, and support to help you navigate obstacles and attain compliance excellence.  

Life Safety Code Regulation Info

LA MO members indicate difficulty in finding Life Safety Code regulations. However, most code references relied on by surveyors are printed on the bottom of tags in the 2786R? Further, this document serves as a reference to all Life Safety Code tags.  Emergency preparedness requirements appear in Appendix Z. Members are urged to review Appendix Z to ensure compliance.  The review of examples found there supports  better Life Safety compliance.

QIO Change/Potential IDR Change

Change is coming for Missouri’s Medicare designated Quality Improvement Organization (QIO).  Effective November 7, 2024, Health Quality Innovators will no longer be Missouri’s QIO.  Missouri law requires DHSS to use the QIO for the IDR process. Accordingly, a change in the IDR facilitator is likely.  CMS has not named a new QIO and may not until December or later. Once named, DHSS will contact the new QIO about contracting with DHSS for the IDR process.   In the interim, if HQI is amenable, DHSS will look to it for IDR.  DHSS is aware the last time the QIO changed  it took months to get contracts in place, causing IDR delay.  It is conceivable the same IDR personnel will contract to administer IDR.  Stay tuned!