Re: Care Plan Conferences

[Michelle Witges]

I work in a SNF attached to a hospital and our social service aide contact's families shortly after admission as they need to complete their social service assessment.  She then will offer conference at day 5 or 14.  She calls and documents response in a note book she keeps in her office.  In the notebook it will include if family accepted and/or declined and if she left a message on answering machine.  She has been doing this for over 10 years and survey has never had a problem. Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: Care Plan Conferences I am having a real delimma getting my team to conduct care plan conferences on our sub-acute unit-ultimate excuse is they are only in the facility 10-20days.  Out of curiosity how are the rest of you arranging care plan conferences for sub-acute? Currently our Social worker calls the family within 72 of admission, introduces themselves and states that if at anytime they want a family conference one can be scheduled.  I am uncomfortable with this as this is no documentation to support that we offered the family a care plan conference and whether or not the accepted or declines.  Who notifies the families on conferences and how?  Do to our turn over 120 admissions/discharges a month we do not have care conferences unless the family requests one.  Is this acceptable?  Any recommendations on care conferences how to get them going, content of conference with or without family etc would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks Lisa Aurora, CO