lifesaver252

we use AHT

if you guys have an admission care plan, (which is probably very basic, ours is basically checkboxes the nurse can fill out when she admits a patient), it should cover you if the resident is discharged before the seven days after completeing the admission assessment.

well that does suck.. what if you do a seperate quarterly and a seperate medicare assessment but use the exact same info, with the exact same ARD dates..then you will not have to actually do two assessment on the resident but it will satisfy both requirments?

thank you. this helps.

no another assessment is not needed. that assessment will go into the casemix.whatever the last assessment for a medicaid resident is during the assessment will go into the casemix even if its a part a or a combined partA and quarterly.

so i know everyone does care plans different, some use the MDS software, some use word or publisher. How do you decide what to care plan.. i know you need to care plan triggered items from the MDS but what other stuff? do you care plan every medicine, or DX, is there a basic list of things you go by? on average how many problems are on your care plans? i know some are probably longer, some shorter.. but on average, and what are some things you regularly care plan? fall risk, weightloss? also How specific are your interventions? i have been the MDS and care plan coordinator for 5 years at an 85 bed facility. i recently left that job, and am on job number 2 since then. it has been a challenge to me to pick up on someone elses care plans, its been frustrating. my care plans on average have been about 10-12 problems.. maybe more- maybe even less.. but both facilities i have been in since then, have 20-30 problems atleast and to me it seems they are not care planning things that need to be care planned and are care planning wierd problems, with wierd goals. now im begining to question my care plan abilities, even though ive never had a problem before. just curious about other facilities.. thanks