Long-Term Care Survey Alert
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Check Out Residents' Risk For Pneumonia-Related Morbidity, Mortality
Published on Tue Jun 28, 2005 
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Use this tool to inform your decision to hospitalize residents.
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Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Urinary Incontinence:
Take The High And Dry Road To F315 Compliance
Revised survey guidance maps out assessment steps.
To manage urinary incontinence under the new F315 tag [...] - Quality Assessment:
Celebrate Residents' Success In Regaining Bladder Control
View the cup as half full rather than half empty.
If staff tends to classify residents [...] - Care Planning:
To Develop The Right Care Plan, Ask The Right Questions And Person
Here's the secret to avoid an 'F' (tag) in care planning for incontinence.
If you want [...] - Quality Of Care:
Short Stays May Signal Your Care Has Gone Astray
Get on top of this trend before it leads down a path to F tags.
There's [...] - Risk Management:
Get To The Bottom Of High Rehospitalization Rates
Hint: Sometimes the answer to a problem is 'all of the above.'
A high resident re-hospitalization [...] - Patient Care:
To Hospitalize? Pneumonia Risk Score Antes Up An Answer
Assessment tool for pneumonia patients can stave off QA, survey woes.
Helping residents with pneumonia avoid [...] - Patient Assessment:
Pay Attention To These Risk Indicators In Pneumonia Patients
Certain assessment parameters may hold more sway over patients' fate.
Pre-existing mood decline may bode poorly [...] - Clip 'N Save:
Check Out Residents' Risk For Pneumonia-Related Morbidity, Mortality
Use this tool to inform your decision to hospitalize residents. - Survey Trends:
Look For Revamped Set Of QIs To Drive Surveys
If you've heard the changes are no big deal, you're going to be blindsided.
Did you [...] - Reader Questions:
Narrowing Window For Correcting Deficiencies Can Head Off CMPs
Question: Can surveyors re-cite a facility for the same problem that the facility is addressing [...] - Clip 'N' Save:
Cover The Bases In Assessing Urinary Incontinence
If you're missing any of these pieces, watch out.
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Clip 'N' Save:
All Incontinence Is Not Created Equal
Find out how CMS defines the various types of urinary incontinence.
Facilities need to identify the [...] - Survey & Clinical News To Use
-Are you on top of the June 15 RAI manual revisions? The latest update replaced [...]
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