Memberships
Become a member and access restricted educational components and wellness services!
Patient - Care Partners
How to be accountable and responsible in health navigation. From a general overview, to determine key questions you should ask, our information is presented from a personal, family, or care partner perspective. Learn how patients and their family can be "a part of the care conversation".
$99 ($149 annual)
Clinicians and Providers
Learn to lead your team, navigate essential resources, and develop strategies for department or office workflows, compliance, and cost-benefit concepts along with teaching patients and families to better understand their role in healthcare literacy. Need something specific, this level of membership comes with additional perks. Ask Us!
$499 ($599 annual)
Healthcare Facilities
This level of membership includes education and team development concepts for hospitals and Outpatient Clinical settings. Our Community Based Health concepts, looks at your community health information, along with your survey data. We organize concepts for inpatient, outpatient, and quality measures based on your workflows. We offer custom training, designed to meet your objectives, along with tools to meet the needs of your organization. Ask us!
$799 ($999 annual)
Long Term Care & Rehab Facilities
Challenges in long-term care facilities over the last decade come with recurring concerns. The growing numbers of an aging population who require more medical care put a strain on the healthcare workforce. The most common complaints have brought forth different phases of compliance and mandates. We offer strategies for addressing compliance challenges, and an overview of the next steps, with guidance for smaller facilities (under 100 beds). Our custom tools (F-Tag) and specific action plans provide an oversight to ongoing efforts to meet compliance or to address a “Plan of Correction.” We specialize in Long Term Care strategy.
• Improved patient and family experience results in both literacy for residents, families, and provider teams.
$799 ($999 annual)
Faith Foundations
Our youth and family programs include custom curriculums and a faith-based approach that integrates spiritual principles for a practical and enriching journey.
Our tool, aligned with the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) offers flexibility within focus areas (which we call steps) to meet the goals and needs of families/youth who are looking for a deeper understanding of faith. We meet them where they are, engaged, seeking, or separated in their understanding of how faith can align with a peaceful life. Our vision is outlined in our tool, “Guidebook with Proposed Competencies in Foundation Study & Catholic Prayers” which we believe may align with what you might be looking for.
$49 ($79 annual)
Educational Products
Browse samples of tools or contact us for custom tools by category.
Email: Barbara@purposefulconceptsllc.com
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- Explore Youth Careers (5th gr.+)
- Faith Formation – Foundations
- Life Skills
- Lifestyle Responsibilities and Accountability
- Nutrition & Wellness
- Self-Promotion
- Sustainability – Home Arts
- Urban Farm Concepts
- Well-Being
- Youth Self-Help
Free Government Educational Services
Self-Help, Healthcare, Social and Cultural Education
Take action to improve your learning.
Learn what AHRQ and CMS do and how they can help!
TeamSTEPPS® stands for Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety.
TeamSTEPPS® is:
- an evidence-based framework aimed at optimizing patient and/or resident care by improving communication and teamwork skills in healthcare settings;
- another component to help support and enhance person-centered care by promoting the delivery of quality and safe care;
- part of the ongoing patient safety movement which includes those receiving care across healthcare settings, including those living in nursing homes; and
- focused on specific skills supporting team performance principles and concepts, and provides specific tools and strategies for improving communication and teamwork, reducing chance of error, and providing safer care.
Training Focused for Long Term Care (LTC):
Antibiotics – Train the Trainer series:
Exploring antibiotics and their role in bacterial infections
Antibiotic resistance: How it happens and strategies to decrease the spread of resistance
Clostridium difficile Part One: Clinical Overview (part one – clinical overview)
Clostridium difficile (Part Two: Strategies to Prevent, Track, and Monitor C. difficile)
Training Focused for Facilities:
COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other stakeholders, has developed the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals. StAT stands for Standards, Approaches and Tactics for COVID-19 Infection Control & Prevention. This online, mobile-friendly, self-paced training is intended for hospital infection control leaders, frontline hospital staff and hospital administrators.
With the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals, you will find the latest tools and techniques, along with refreshed best practices for a new era of infection prevention and control.
Each self-paced learning module is approximately 15 minutes long. Take the COVID-19 StAT Self-Assessment to determine which trainings are right for you.
Review Your QPP Registration and Data
Be ready! If you are already registered have the security Official/Staff person log-in. If you aren’t sure who has access, create a system for your office so the following information is handy; gather the following:
- Tax ID Number (TIN)
- NPI (individual or all in the group)
- Medicare PECOS PAC ID (numbers of members in the group)
- PECOS Enrollment ID
It’s handy to have the Provider Enumeration Date and the last Update. As a member, you have access to an EXCEL workbook, ASK Us!
Connect to an Organization (practice) and Select a Role
This site outlines the steps to connect an Organization (like a practice, QCDR/Registry, or an APM Entity) and how to get the Security Official or Staff User role you need, and sign In. If you have never registered, start here, a User Guide will be the tool needed. Once you are registered you will be redirected to HARP (this can take up to 15 min.)
QPP
Resources that speak to Timelines and Important Deadlines
Facilities and LTC
See how your facility will compare with other nursing homes!
Long Term Care – The Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program (SNF VBP)
Just as LTC learned where and how to access information and tools, CMS retired the site in Dec. 2020. The new site, walks the user through the steps in retrieving data sets for specific data collection periods.
- LTC facilities now face penalties related to the “Mega Rule”
- Person & Family Engagement Strategy The CMS F-Tag tool introduced new tags under Infection Control (483.80) and Administration (483.70) in Aug.2020. We have multiple concepts for many of the groups, especially QAPI. Visit our Education and Tools area or Ask Us!
- How to Get Involved, Join a Local Learning & Action Network
- Promoting Healthy Communities
It’s handy to have tools! Visit our Education and Tools section or let us know how we can help!
As a Long-Term Care Facility (LTC) or Nursing Home
- CMS mandates are aligned to performance indicators related to the Healthcare Reform Act. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
- Are you a Nursing Home or a facility that has beds for Rehab patients? Purposeful Concepts LLC offers the right level of leadership to guide your team with "role-based" strategies to best understand desired performance outcomes and pinpoint the change in a workflow that can make the difference. With LTC facilities now facing CMS mandates from both a federal and state standards align with components of care which are listed on a “LTC-Rule Job Aid” with measures or “F-tag” focus areas. CMS F-tags are used by each state department of Health and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to survey quality of care provided to residents in facilities. We have a custom tool available that correlates to the current available F-tags that focus on the survey process. Join us, we offer different levels of service to best fit the needs of your facility.
Free Government Educational Services
Self-Help, Healthcare, Social and Cultural Education
Take action to improve your learning.
Learn what AHRQ and CMS do and how they can help!
TeamSTEPPS® stands for Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety.
TeamSTEPPS® is:
- an evidence-based framework aimed at optimizing patient and/or resident care by improving communication and teamwork skills in healthcare settings;
- another component to help support and enhance person-centered care by promoting the delivery of quality and safe care;
- part of the ongoing patient safety movement which includes those receiving care across healthcare settings, including those living in nursing homes; and
- focused on specific skills supporting team performance principles and concepts, and provides specific tools and strategies for improving communication and teamwork, reducing chance of error, and providing safer care.
Training Focused for Long Term Care (LTC):
Antibiotics – Train the Trainer series:
Exploring antibiotics and their role in bacterial infections
Antibiotic resistance: How it happens and strategies to decrease the spread of resistance
Clostridium difficile Part One: Clinical Overview (part one – clinical overview)
Clostridium difficile (Part Two: Strategies to Prevent, Track, and Monitor C. difficile)
Training Focused for Facilities:
COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), with input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other stakeholders, has developed the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals. StAT stands for Standards, Approaches and Tactics for COVID-19 Infection Control & Prevention. This online, mobile-friendly, self-paced training is intended for hospital infection control leaders, frontline hospital staff and hospital administrators.
With the COVID-19 StAT Learning Series for Hospitals, you will find the latest tools and techniques, along with refreshed best practices for a new era of infection prevention and control.
Each self-paced learning module is approximately 15 minutes long. Take the COVID-19 StAT Self-Assessment to determine which trainings are right for you.
Review Your QPP Registration and Data
Be ready! If you are already registered have the security Official/Staff person log-in. If you aren’t sure who has access, create a system for your office so the following information is handy; gather the following:
- Tax ID Number (TIN)
- NPI (individual or all in the group)
- Medicare PECOS PAC ID (numbers of members in the group)
- PECOS Enrollment ID
It’s handy to have the Provider Enumeration Date and the last Update. As a member, you have access to an EXCEL workbook, ASK Us!
Connect to an Organization (practice) and Select a Role
This site outlines the steps to connect an Organization (like a practice, QCDR/Registry, or an APM Entity) and how to get the Security Official or Staff User role you need, and sign In. If you have never registered, start here, a User Guide will be the tool needed. Once you are registered you will be redirected to HARP (this can take up to 15 min.)
QPP
Resources that speak to Timelines and Important Deadlines
Facilities and LTC
See how your facility will compare with other nursing homes!
Long Term Care – The Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program (SNF VBP)
Just as LTC learned where and how to access information and tools, CMS retired the site in Dec. 2020. The new site, walks the user through the steps in retrieving data sets for specific data collection periods.
- LTC facilities now face penalties related to the “Mega Rule”
- Person & Family Engagement Strategy The CMS F-Tag tool introduced new tags under Infection Control (483.80) and Administration (483.70) in Aug.2020. We have multiple concepts for many of the groups, especially QAPI. Visit our Education and Tools area or Ask Us!
- How to Get Involved, Join a Local Learning & Action Network
- Promoting Healthy Communities
It’s handy to have tools! Visit our Education and Tools section or let us know how we can help!
As a Long-Term Care Facility (LTC) or Nursing Home
- CMS mandates are aligned to performance indicators related to the Healthcare Reform Act. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
- Are you a Nursing Home or a facility that has beds for Rehab patients? Purposeful Concepts LLC offers the right level of leadership to guide your team with “role-based” strategies to best understand desired performance outcomes and pinpoint the change in a workflow that can make the difference. With LTC facilities now facing CMS mandates from both a federal and state standards align with components of care which are listed on a “LTC-Rule Job Aid” with measures or “F-tag” focus areas. CMS F-tags are used by each state department of Health and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to survey quality of care provided to residents in facilities. We have a custom tool available that correlates to the current available F-tags that focus on the survey process. Join us, we offer different levels of service to best fit the needs of your facility.