RE: PROJECTION OF MINUTES AT DAY 8

[Brenda Chance]

Yes and No.  See chapter 6 of the MDS manual for clarification for the low, medium, and high rugs scoring.  The resident does not have to been seen 5 days, though, in order to obtain these rugs score.  It is ok to project them into these.   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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PROJECTION OF MINUTES AT DAY 8   In a message dated 1/28/2004 2:56:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My new Therapy Manager has questioned why we would need to use grace days 6 through 8 if he wasn't planning on attaining an RU or RV RUG level. Can anyone explain? I didn't really phrase my question correctly. He doesn't understand why you would have a need to utilize grace days 6-8, feeling that projection alone gives the RUG level. Isn't there a minimum number of minutes to have been given by the 5 day Assessment, in conjunction with the projection, which gives the RUG level? For example, the higher the number of minutes ALREADY given, in conjunction with a good projection, would yield a higher RUG level? Is this correct?