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Nursing Home Quality Initiative Nursing Home STAR Site, Setting Targets - Achieving Results
Quarter 3 2007 quality measure scores are now available in STAR. Reminder: Targets entered during 1st quarter 2008 can be edited until 3/31/2008, before their effective start date of 4/1/2008.
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Join the more than 9,600 nursing homes who use STAR to help continually improve the quality of care they provide to their residents. The STAR site is a Web based tool that provides methods to set improvement targets, compare to national benchmarks, and track performance goals for six quality measures:

  1. Physical restraints
  2. High-risk pressure ulcers
  3. Depression
  4. Chronic care pain
  5. Post-acute care pain
  6. Post-acute care pressure ulcers

Login to your existing account or register using your Medicare/Medicaid provider number.

STAR registration is free and available to all Medicare- and/or Medicaid certified nursing homes. For instructions and other electronic resources, please click on Help.

Did you know that setting STAR targets fulfills one of the eight Advancing Excellence Campaign goals? Visit www.nhqualitycampaign.org to learn more about the Campaign--and then sign up, so that your STAR targets can count towards your participation.

STAR was developed by quality improvement organizations (QIOs) under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As QIOs, we believe that achieving high quality is an on-going process. Our goal is to provide the tools and information you need to improve the quality of your services. We encourage you to raise the bar for quality by continually reevaluating your quality of care and identifying areas for improvement.

Note: This site is for your nursing home's internal use; as a result, your registration on this site is completely confidential. Your facility's name and targets will not be shared with state survey and certification agencies. CMS will only view aggregate or de-identified data.
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