Nursing Home Quality Measures

NMMRA partners with New Mexico's nursing homes to improve the publicly reported quality measures posted on Nursing Home Compare. Measures related to reducing the use of physical restraints and management of pressure ulcers are part of the National Patient Safety Initiative (NPSI). NPSI projects are part of NMMRA’s New Mexico Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

What Are Quality Measures?

The nursing home quality measures come from resident assessment data that nursing homes routinely collect on all residents at specified intervals during a resident's stay (referred to as the Minimum Data Set). This assessment data is converted into quality measures that provide data to nursing homes to help them with their quality improvement efforts. Quality measure data also serves as another source of information for consumers to see how well nursing homes are caring for their residents' physical and clinical needs.

Quality Measures on Nursing Home Compare

For long-stay nursing home residents:

• Percent of residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased
• Percent of residents who have moderate to severe pain
• Percent of residents who were physically restrained
• Percent of residents who spent most of their time in bed or in a chair
• Percent of residents whose ability to move about in and around their room got worse
• Percent of residents with a urinary tract infection
• Percent of residents who have become more depressed or anxious
• Percent of high risk residents who have pressure sores
• Percent of low risk residents who have pressure sores
• Percent of low risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder
• Percent of residents who have/had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

For short-stay nursing home residents:

• Percent of short stay residents who had moderate to severe pain
• Percent of short stay residents with delirium
• Percent of short stay residents with pressure sores

Find out more about how NMMRA is helping to Improve Nursing Home Quality of Care and access a variety of quality improvement resources, tools and Web links.