Good morning.
We're about to get started.
I'm Tom Jackson.
I'll be facilitating today's meetings.
I think everybody has been here at least one day already.
So we'll go through this fairly quickly.
I'd like everybody to go ahead and get out their phones or their computers that they're
going to use for slido so we can do the polling and the questions.
Go ahead and get that setup.
You'll need to set it up again with your profile this morning.
So get started on that.
Everybody has a packet.
And we have an agenda in the packet.
It's up here on the screen.
We're going to have an overview of the Inpatient and Rehab Facility QRP first by Chris Grose.
And then a Section GG lesson case.
Then we'll be going straight into a break.
There will be breaks in the morning.
Lunch will be an hour and fifteen minutes again.
Today's presenters, I think you met them all yesterday.
First up is Chris Grose, she's from CMS.
She's an RN, MSN.
She's worked in acute-care hospitals and oncology for a long time.
She's been over this program for several years, I believe, Chris.
And she'll be giving you an overview.
Anne Deutsch is with RTI.
She's from Chicago.
She is an Association Research Professor at Northwestern University.
She's worked in this field for a long time.
She's also a nurse and has a Ph.D in epidemiology.
Carole Schwartz has worked in this area for RTI, not the entire time for RTI.
I believe she's been at RTI for about three years.
She's done research in all these areas for the last 20-years.
And Karen Prior-Topalis is an RN, BSN, MBA and she's Director of Rehab Quality and Outcomes
at Cedar Sinai in Hartford, Connecticut.
Finally Joseph Clift is with us a little later today after lunch.
He's also from CMS.
His title is Health Information Specialist.
I think everybody has that title at one point over at CMS.
But what he does is a lot of measure development.
So when you're looking at these measures, he's the one that knows how to specify the
measures.
You can him questions about exactly how all that works.
He has the 500-page CMS Blueprint Measurement Guideline memorized and the NQF Guidelines
memorized.
He's the guy.
So all your training materials are in your packet.
Flip through those.
Again a reminder, video recordings are being made of the session.
When you do have a chance to ask questions later on if you use the microphone that will
help considerably.
Certificates of Completion will be provided to you in the next few days by email.
And we had a question this morning about the questions themselves that were sent out yesterday.
Everybody has those on your phone during the session.
And those get wiped out at night.
But those are getting posted to the CMS website.
So you have those available to you.
And as those get answered, those answers will be up there too.
Somebody was talking about needing them next week because she needed to go back and have
a meeting with her staff to educate them on this.
One of the questions disappeared off her phone.
But never fear, those are still there.
All right.
So has everybody setup slido?
We're going to go through one quick practice with a question.
What popular street vendor food was invented in Baltimore?
Was it hot-dogs?
Snow cones?
Popcorn?
Roasted peanuts?
We have 13 who figured it out....
16, 20?
And most of the folks have said either roasted peanuts, snow cones, hot-dogs.
A few have said popcorn.
And the correct answer is, snow cones.
It was the late 1800s.
I'm not sure how they made that ice.
What School of Healthcare was first established in Baltimore in 1840?
Was it nursing?
Chiropractic?
Dentistry?
Laser eye surgery?
And I didn't know this one, but it is dentistry.
I did know that Hopkins was the first public health school in the country.
Here's the last one.
I think everybody's warmed up.
Then I'll turn it over to Chris to get us started.
What vital public institution was first inaugurated in Baltimore in 1774?
Fire department?
Movie theater?
Ice cream parlor?
U.S. Post Office?
You can release my clicker.
And the correct answer is the Post Office.
So let's flip through these last couple.
And I think everybody remembers how to do the questions, but let's just quickly go through
that one more time.
At the top of your screen, I just went past it.
There are two tabs up there, one for question and one for polls.
If you click on the questions, it's going to give you a chance to do your profile again.
We'd like to get your name, your company, and your email just so that we'll be able
to contact you if we have questions about the question that you asked.
All you do is type in your question.
A reminder, if you go through there, you're able to see the questions at the bottom.
If there's one that you like, you don't have to put it in there again.
Just click on the "like" button.
We do take that into consideration when we're trying to answer these at the end of the day.
I'm going to turn it over now to Chris Grose.
She's going to be talking the IRF QRP updates.
Chris?