Training & Resources for Long-term Acute Care Hospitals

PEPPER Resources

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Current PEPPER User's Guide:

• Long-term Acute Care PEPPER User’s Guide: Seventh Edition (536 KB PDF)

Jurisdictions:

• View a list of the 15 MAC/FI jurisdictions and the number of hospitals in each jurisdiction in total and by state for Q4FY12 (36 KB XLS).
• View a list of the 16 MAC/FI jurisdictions and the number of hospitals in each jurisdiction in total and by state for Q4FY11 (36 KB XLS).
• View a list of the 17 MAC/FI jurisdictions and the number of hospitals in each jurisdiction in total and by state for Q4FY10 (35 KB XLS).

PEPPER Training:

• Long-term hospitals PEPPER training session 1: This session reviews the history and basics of PEPPER, explains percents and percentiles, discusses the MAC/FI jurisdiction and reviews PEPPER updates effective with the Q4FY10 release. (Duration: 24:55, requires Flash 9.0 or later)
• Long-term hospitals PEPPER training session 2: This session provides a demonstration of long-term PEPPER version Q4FY10, information on how to prioritize PEPPER findings and where to access resources and assistance. (Duration: 31:51, requires Flash 9.0 or later) 
• Access alternate file formats and transcripts of the PEPPER trainings.
• Download the PowerPoint slides for the PEPPER training sessions. (906 KB PDF)

Demonstration PEPPER:

• Demonstration PEPPER version Q4FY12 (1 MB XLS)

Other Resources:

• View a list of LT target areas (35 KB Word, updated 2/26/2013).
• View this slide presentation (PPT file, updated 10-01-2011) on percents and percentiles to help understand the differences between “percent” and “percentile” and how they are used in PEPPER.

Archived User's Guides:

View archived user’s guides.