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My facility is in northern NY and our survey team will not accept a pressure reduction mattress as a pressure relieving one. We had purchased pressure reduction mattresses for all beds. I didn’t code them as pressure relieving on the MDS but the year they did a focus review r/t decubs we got cited. Pressure reduction mattresses are not “doing all you can do” to prevent. They indicated that if I had coded the MDS wrong the citation would have been worse. We now add air mattresses to those people we call class 2 risk.
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Regarding mattresses amd M5b. Do we know that surveyors won't accept a pressure "reduction" mattress as a pressure "relieving" one? Either way you can never have no pressure unless you are not lying on that area.
Five years ago we purchased pressure "relieving" mattresses. Since that time we have checked M5b on every resident and have never been called on it.
Is M5b considered a ruggable item with the new guidelines on a "turning program"? |
- Pressure relieving vs. reduction Maureen Stettner
- Re: Pressure relieving vs. reduction Faye Jones
- Re: Pressure relieving vs. reduction Corey
