MystyDreamer

I was recently told to to a PPS for 5 days only due to IV antibiotics given in the hospital. When I asked for further confirmation was told it had always been done and that transfusions during hospitalization could be done the same way even though resident did not qualify for any therapy. Does anyone know where to find documentation to support this?

Our corporate offices have decided to decentralize the MDS by having different departments do their sections and their own CAA's. They are also to do their own input into the careplan itself. These department have had only 2 days of training by an outside service. These decisions were made without discussion with the current team in place. Does this approach work? I would be very interested in hearing the opinions of other MDS coordinators on how they handle the MDS in their facility. This is a SNF with 160+ beds all of them certified and no designated rehab wing. Med A's can be placed anywhere. Thanks for any input

Thanks for the information. I think I have been seeing assessments in my sleep! I just couldn't see what to do for the forest of paper on my desk:uhoh3:

I had a resident admiited to skilled, was here for 5 days, then d/c to hospital, stayed for 4 days, came back and is leaving monday for another facility. Do I have to do 2 admit tracking, 2 5 day PPS, 1 obra admit and 2 discharge tracking? This is getting ridiculous!

Does anyone have any good info on the CAT & CAA for 3.0? Our corp office wants us to use the forms in RAI to do the CAA's with....talk about labor intensive!!! Are most of you doing short summaries with references to data location in the chart? Have I understood the schedule correctly...the MDS and the CAA's are all due by the ARD date?? :devil:Our careplan software does not intergrate properly with the MDS software and this has turned into a nightmare! There are only 2 of us in the MDS office and we have 162 beds. We had around 12 admits and d/c at change over plus all the new one's since. I feel like we are drowning...plus our MDS software is not fully functional yet!!! Any info would help!

Our powers that be decided at the last minute to revamp and add mds responsibilities to a bunch of untrained staff. This is a total nightmare. It was supposed to take a "workload" off of the mds office but it just added a lot of extra trouble and work. As usual the decision came from one who doesn't acutally do the work!

Ok now i'm really confused. We called our CMS contact person to clarify the transition dates. What she told us and what i'm reading here is total opposites. If I do what she says it sounds like I will be in default days for most of my 25 skilled starting oct 1. This is crazy, how can we be expected to complete 25 new assessments in as little as 4 days??? Any suggestions???