----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:32
PM
Subject: Re: MDS Question
A standing policy to use the grace days for every
5-day is a bad idea. The safest way to appraoch this is to use the grace days
when doing so causes the MDS to more accurately reflect the care being
delivered to the resident. For example, if you have an order for
therapy that will qualify for High or Very Hight, but the
resident was admitted on Friday and the first therapy is not delivered
until Monday, setting the ARD to day 5 (Tuesday) would show only 2 days of
therapy actually delivered. Using 3 grace days moves the ARD to the following
Friday and now you show 5 days of therapy. This is more indicative of the
actual level of care being given.
Nathan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:16
PM
Subject: FW: MDS Question
Hi All:
I have a question from one
of our Medical Records personnel. Can anyone help with this
one?
I have an
MDS question for you, is it OK to use 2-3 grace days with every 5day
MDS? Can you tell me how should an facility use the grace days. We have
an out side Therapy that comes in and see our residents, they are telling us
they used 3 grace days all the time, is this OK. We want to make sure
that our facility is doing this correctly. Please let us know any thing
about the grace days.
Thanks
Patty Ooton
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