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North Carolina
Success
Stories: NORTH CAROLINA
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- Lutheran
Home-Albemarle nursing facility perfects pain assessment: Since April
2003, Lutheran Home-Albemarle, a skilled nursing facility with 76 certified
beds, has participated in a Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative
with Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence, the state’s Quality Improvement
Organization. The 18-month collaborative focuses on the clinical topics
of pain and restraints. Lutheran Home-Albemarle used a phased-in approach
to quality improvement by first establishing a process rooted in continuous
quality improvement principles and then institutionalizing treatment
approaches. Since May 2003, Lutheran Home-Albemarle, has consistently
implemented processes advocated by the QIO to improve pain management,
ensuring that all residents who trigger for pain are assessed and treated.
Early in the collaborative, Lutheran Home-Albemarle scored 100% on
all of the process measures, indicating that all residents that screen
for pain are fully evaluated, care planned, and receive both medication
and non-medication interventions to treat pain.
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