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Assisted Living Communities: Getting Insights from EHRs and Other Data Sources
Residents, families, payers, and other partners are getting more sophisticated in the data they can access and use to assess quality and make decisions. Assisted living communities have access to simple, no-fuss data resources that are free to access and use – the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative and LTC Trend Tracker. The LTC Data Cooperative is the most recent opportunity for assisted living communities to gain insights from their electronic health record (EHR) data, through provider feedback reports that compare measures for single buildings and multi-community organizations to measures calculated from hundreds of assisted living communities nationwide. LTC Trend Tracker offers a powerful web-based tool to visualize data from multiple sources. Put your community ahead by applying these resources and take data-driven action.
Understand how the LTC Data Cooperative can serve as an important source for comparative data on EHR-based measures that can help you track resident clinical status.
Identify how LTC Trend Tracker can be a one-stop shop for collecting, tracking, and trending data important to assisted living communities
Assess the benefits of different types of data for use in your organization
Lonnita Myles
Stephanie Kissam
Lonnita Myles, MBA, is a native of the Washington DC Metropolitan area and has been at AHCA/NCAL for over ten years. Working with the Quality, Regulatory and Research team throughout her time at AHCA/NCAL, and having also partnered with the Finance and Legal team at AHCA/NCAL on various projects, she has centered her work around intensifying the organization’s quality improvement efforts. In her time at AHCA/NCAL, she has developed expertise in project management, marketing campaigns, and curating educational materials and opportunities.
In her current role as Project Director for the Long-Term Care (LTC) Data Cooperative, Lonnita leads research and management process initiatives that are centered around building quality solutions for quality care. Her experience spans various operations of digital transformation and the introduction of technological opportunities for the long-term care sector.
Stephanie M. Kissam, MPH, is a health services researcher with over 20 years of leadership in public health program development, research, and management.
She started at AHCA in October 2023 after nearly 15 years at RTI International, where she led large national evaluation projects for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Administration for Community Living. Her areas of research include state health policy, health IT implementation, nursing home quality measure development and maintenance, and outcomes of value-based payment models. Earlier in her career she supported leadership at the Rhode Island Department of Health and later at the Office of Health and Human Services in strategic development. In that role, she contributed to the development of the state’s Health Information Exchange and patient-centered medical home initiatives. Additionally, at the Rhode Island Quality Improvement Organization, she developed resources to support nursing homes with CMS’s National Nursing Home Quality Initiative. She received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan.