RE: Care Plan Conferences

[Brenda Chance]

The manual clearly states that you don’t do a significant change with the MC assessments until therapy has been completed and the resident is functioning at the highest maximum potential.  At that point is when the significant change is done, if required.   Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator     CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: Janice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Care Plan Conferences   That is the way I do it at my facility and it was talked about with my administrator and the DON.  If a skilled person is making improvement and this was the goal of therapy then a SCSA does not need to be done.   Now say they came in with behaviors that were not easily altered and those improved and they came in being incontinent and that improved, etc.I would then do a SCSA.  Mainly I am talking about improvements in section G, otherwise we might be doing SCSA with every 14, 30, 60, 90 assessment.  ----- Original Message ----- From: M. Wilson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:36 AM Subject: Re: Care Plan Conferences   So to clarify/simplify, are you saying that if a person changes in two or more areas but the improvement was due to a course of therapy, that a SCSA doesn't need to be done because it was the anticipated goal of therapy to improve this person?  Janice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exactly....Significant change in status does not have to be done if the improvements are following a current course of care.... ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Care Plan Conferences   In a message dated 1/11/2004 5:41:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because there is a change in status. either they have been discharged because they have improved in their adls or discharged because they are no longer progressing or have declined.---- Not necessary if it was an expected improvement/decline. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes