Overview

Nursing Home Award Program Overview

	Purpose:	Improve the quality of nursing home care for Texas by recognizing nursing homes for their quality improvement success.
	Strategy:	Nursing Home Quality Initiative Coalition (NHQIC) members will publicly recognize nursing homes that have achieved verifiable quality improvement success, while providing an incentive for nursing homes to create a health care environment dedicated to achieve high standards through quality improvement.
	Goals:	Improve the quality of life for each individual resident in a Texas nursing home. Improve statewide performance on the CMS national quality measures. Increase the number of nursing homes actively working on a quality improvement.
	Scope:	All nursing homes in Texas that meet the criteria will be eligible.

Methodology: The award will be based on:

Improved performance on selected focus areas, one of which needs to be an Advancing Excellence Goal:
- Each nursing home must select at least one clinical topic and one non-clinical topic on which to focus improvements.
Compliance with other common quality standards set by the nursing home industry.