As Missouri’s QIO, Primaris works with nursing homes across the state on a variety of patient safety projects. Patients and families can use Medicare's Nursing Home Compare Web site to see how nursing homes in their communities are performing on publicly reported quality measures. Quality of care counts, as does accountability.
Primaris knows the daily challenges nursing homes face. Tackling these challenges requires a team approach.
Primaris offers a variety of free clinical tools and resources available for these and other topics. Anyone may download, print, share and use these tools.
Staff stability is a challenge in any healthcare setting. For nursing home administrators, help is available. A variety of tips are available on this subject.
We have also compiled a list of useful Web links for nursing homes.