Get more stars: ahcancalED offers a comprehensive training for nursing facility administrators and nurse leaders, titled The Five-Star Quality Rating System.

• This education program reviews the methodology for the overall Five-Star Quality Rating System, along with each of the separate domains for health inspections, staffing, and quality measures.

Upon completion of this training program, learners will:

• Have a basic understanding of the Five-Star Quality Rating System and each of the three domains.
• Develop a working knowledge of the methodology for determining the overall Five-Star composite score.
• Understand the scoring methodology for each of the domains, including:
  • The Health Inspection Rating,
  • The Staffing Rating, and
  • ​The Quality Measure Rating.

More details: The cost of the training program is $40 for AHCA members and $80 for non-members and comes with 1.5 NAB CEs and 1.5 contact hours through the Iowa Board of Nursing.

• ​​Individuals will need to login to ahcancalED with their AHCA/NCAL usernames and passwords to register. For assistance obtaining usernames and passwords, members should email educate@ahca.org with their name and facility contact information.