Administrative Memos

200405

FROM: Theodore O. Will, Chief Executive Officer
DATE: Apr 27, 2004
SUBJECT: "Enhanced Quality Measures And The MDS: Sowing Seeds Of Quality", Statewide Educational Conferences
IPRO CONTACTS:

Marina Durmaz, Secretary - NHQI, ext. 296 or Pauline Kinney, R.N., M.A., L.N.H.A., Director - NHQI, ext. 402

IPRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for New York State, will be sponsoring five (5) statewide educational conferences titled "Enhanced Quality Measures & the MDS: Sowing Seeds of Quality."

The purpose of the conferences is to provide nursing homes with important information to help maintain and improve quality of care by expanding knowledge of the Enhanced Quality Measures (QMs) and Minimum Data Set (MDS). The conferences will also offer guidance in developing strategies for more accurate coding of the MDS items that correlate with the quality measures. Because the quality of the MDS data determines the accuracy of your quality measure data, the target audiences for the conferences include interdisciplinary staff throughout the nursing home setting.

The NHQI educational conferences will be full day sessions held at upstate and downstate locations as follows:


Conference Date and Location	Deadline date for registration
June 16, 2004, Melville Marriott, Melville, NY, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM	June 9, 2004
June 17, 2004, LaGuardia Marriott, East Elmhurst, NY, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM	June 9, 2004
June 24, 2004, Holiday Inn Turf, Albany, NY, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM	June 15, 2004
June 25, 2004, Sheraton University, Syracuse, NY, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM	June 15, 2004
June 30, 2004, Holiday Inn Airport, Rochester, NY, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM	June 22, 2004

There is a fee of $25 per person to attend the conferences to help defray the cost of food and beverages. We accept credit cards and checks as forms of payment. You can register for the conference online and get driving directions to the conference by visiting our Web site at www.ipro.org/nhqi. Walk-ins are discouraged.

This program has been approved for 6 CEUs for Nursing Home Administrators.

We look forward to your participation in the educational conferences. Should you have any questions regarding the conferences or this memorandum, please feel free to contact Marina Durmaz via email at mdurmaz@nyqio.sdps.org or by phone at 1-516-326-7767, ext. 296.