RE: MDS Medical Records

[Debbie Settle]

Different facilities do it different ways. I worked in a facility where a new chart was required for each readmission. The DON & Administrator refused to budge on it until we had a resident who had multiple admissions to hospital in one month. He would come into facility, stay 1-2 days, go back into hospital for 3-4 days, and come back into facility. But until they "saw the light" I just copied my previous MDSs for each new chart. It also helped when the other Dept Heads complained that they were having to redo their inital assessments over & over. The more people complainig, the better. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MDS Medical Records I am trying to keep the required last 15 month MDS assessments on the charts of readmitted residents. Medical records will not let me take the MDS out of the closed chart (from previous admission).  Is this the current medical record practice?  What does everyone else do?  I am trying to save myself the work of copying these assessments.    Thanks.