Long-Term Care Survey Alert
Public Relations
TIPS FOR EXPLAINING QUALITY INITIATIVE TO CONSUMERS 1. Encourage consumers to view the published meaures as a starting point for evaluating a nursing facility. Compare the process to selecting a college, for example. 2. Take advantage of trade group and government educational materials to explain the initiative to staff, residents, families and prospective customers. 3. Refer potential residents and families to other sources knowledgeable about your facilitys care. 5. Share with consumers the innovative changes your facility has made as a result of the quality feedback. 7. Explain how what the government defines as restraints can also be used to help residents function more independently as part of a restorative program.
4. Ask current residents and families to share their positive experiences with your facility with prospective customers.
6. Explain how your unique resident population has some unavoidable outcomes and the positive and humane strategies used to care for residents with progressive conditions.
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Survey Management:
GET A HEAD START ON NATIONAL QUALITY INITIATIVE
Another round of "quality outing" is on the horizon, and it promises to give surveyors [...] - Survey Developments:
RISK ADJUSTMENT COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE UNDER NEW
Will the national rollout of the nursing home quality initiative take into account your facilitys [...] - Survey Strategies:
DIG DEEP TO EXPLAIN QUALITY OUTCOMES
Once the government's national nursing home quality initiative goes live in October, facilities will need [...] - Abuse Detection:
WATCH OUT FOR CONDITIONS THAT MIMIC ABUSE
You know that Mrs. Jones always has bruises on her arms and legs because she [...] - Risk Management:
WHEN THE RESIDENT HAS A BRUISE: HOW TO HEAD OFF AN ABUSE INVESTIGATION
When it comes to a bruise, pictures are not only worth a thousand words: they [...] - Survey Compliance:
GET YOUR POC ON THE FAST TRACK TO COMPLIANCE
The best time to plan your plan of correction is long before your facility has [...] - Risk Management:
KEEP POCS FROM BECOMING AMMUNITION FOR TRIAL LAWYERS
A plan of correction written with a tone of "mea culpa" may please surveyors, but [...] - Resident Assessment:
CMS REDUCING MEDICARE ASSESSMENT BURDEN
Nursing home providers will soon have the option to spend less time doing Medicare MDS [...] - Survey Reporting:
COMPLAINT INVESTIGATIONS ADDED TO WEB SITE
Following criticism from key lawmakers about the content of the Nursing Home Compare site, the [...] - Clinical Developments:
VITAMIN C SHOWN TO PROTECT SKIN FROM CANCER, AGING
Researchers now believe Vitamin C long touted for its healing powers can protect the skin [...] - Clinical Developments:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE LINKED TO HIGHER DEMENTIA RISK
A new study shows a definite link between cardiovascular disease and dementia, including Alzheimers disease. [...] - Pain Management:
GUIDELINES ON PAIN AND AGING INTRODUCED
An American Geriatrics Society panel presented new guidelines for treating pain in aging patients this [...] - Clinical Developments:
CLINICAL TRIALS TO START ON PLAQUE BUSTER DRUG
A new drug targeting the "sticky" brain deposits or plaques seen in the brains of [...] - Survey Management
QUALITY MEASURES USED IN PILOT QUALITY INITIATIVE Chronic Care Quality Measures (Residents in facility more [...] - Public Relations
TIPS FOR EXPLAINING QUALITY INITIATIVE TO CONSUMERS 1. Encourage consumers to view the published meaures [...]
