It varies at our facility. Each patient is evaluated to see if transfers are an appropriate part of their therapy program. If not, the CNA gets the patient to the gym or the therapist comes to get them but does not count the minutes.
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From: Chriss, Theresa M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:53 PM
To: AANAC Q&A (E-mail)
Subject: PT MINUTES QUESTION
How do most of your therapy departments bill for minutes? Do they help
assist residents out of bed, into the wheelchair? Do they "count" those
minutes as minutes on their billing sheet??
Our therapy department is "bumping" residents up in categories because they
"take awhile to get them out of their room". For example, someone who can
only tolerate RH minutes, yet therapy is asking for the resident to be RV
because it takes 10 minutes to assist getting them up for therapy.
And what about confused residents? What are most of your therapists doing
as far as minutes, when it might take 45 minutes to get done 30 minutes
worth of exercise due to decreased cognition??
Thank you.
TERRI :0)
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