Garfield Receives Quality and Accountability Supplemental Performance Award
/A huge congratulations to the staff and leadership team at for receiving a $180,000 Quality and Accountability Supplemental Performance (QASP) award by the (DHCS).
The state-developed program evaluates skilled nursing facilities quality of care. One hundred points are divided among the measurements with point values distributed for each quality indicator. Facilities receive an overall quality of care score when points from each of the quality measures are totaled.
Quality Measures categories are as follows:
Staffing
Nursing Hours per Patient Day (NHPPD)
Direct Care Staffing Retention (optional)
Physical Restraints鈥 Long Stay
鈥淔acility Acquired鈥 Pressure Ulcers鈥 Long Stay and Short Stay
Immunizations
Influenza鈥 Long Stay and Short Stay
Pneumococcal鈥 Long Stay and Short Stay
Patient/Family Satisfaction
Garfield scored very well in the areas of (high) staffing, (low) physical restraint use, (few) pressure ulcers, and (high) rate of immunizations.