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I have question in regards to getting an entire new
chart after every d/c. I am hospital based SNF and billing tells me that
each time they go to hospital and return they need NEW medical record number to
be able to track them. I realize the need to be able to track them but is
there a way that could do that without having to d/c and admit each time they go
to the hospital?
Michelle
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:53
PM
Subject: RE: MDS Medical Records
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.
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.
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