MDS Coordinator. Again!?

[fulzgold]

Hello fellow Coordinators, :bowingpurI did this job 10 years ago and my most recent employer has asked me to attend a 3 day seminar in December to get reaquainted with the process. They are telling me they would like me to be the "back up". However I think they have bigger plans than that. I am condidering getting back into it. It is a small facility, holds 60 but we have not had more than 40 residents for over a year. The current coordinator has only been doing it part time as she is going back to school. Knowing what I do about what it really takes to get the job done, I was pretty sure she must be behind. well I found out that she had told them she could do it part time to get them to let her have the time off to go to school. Then corporate found out she was only part time and started sending her to a sister facility as well, to get their MDS done also as they did not have a coordinator for that facility and thought they could save themselves some dough. Now this gal basically shot herself in the foot, so to speak. She is in tears all the time. :crying2:I just found out she is 20 days behind in the MDS assessments. She had been braging about how good she was, ( no one else in the admin. knows how to do them ) so I'm betting she thought she was safe in embellishing her story a bit. I have been reading some threads here and remembering now what a pain in the butt MDS can be. I'm not sure now if I want to take all the crap on again. Esp. since the current gal has admin thinking it is so easy that you can do it part time. Any suggestions from anyone would be helpful. Also, I don't want to take a pay cut just to let someone beat me up. What do you all think I should negotiate before I accept the job. By the way, They asked me in private... DON and Admin.. asked me to keep it under my hat for now. They are probably going to let her go, otherwise I would think they would want her to know they are asking me to help. Thanks!

[fulzgold]

Hi, it took me a week and a half, working every single day, 10 sometimes 12 hours a day to get them caught up from september. Got them submitted on the 30th day. Now Im starting october. I will get it caught up, putting in the information and sending it off is the easy part. once I get it organized it will be fine and they'll finally have some money coming in. We have a reputable therapy dept in our community and have alot of patients in and out every month . So it is very busy. I haven't done this for 10 years so with PPS, it's like I never did it at all.