I think that a big question would be "Was she admitted to the hospital?" If she was
not, and was in the bed at midnight, you would continue as you would have had she
returned at 10 PM. If she was admitted to the hospital ( and stranger things have
happened) then you would need to do a discharge tracking form, complete the day 5 for
the first admission day or take default and then begin counting from readmission for
the new day 5. Hope she wasn't admitted, it is cleaner.
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From: Debbie Settle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mar 1, 2004 8:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: type of assesments
I have a Medicare resident who was admitted @ 2:30pm on 02-28-04, was sent
back to hospital (ER) @ 3:00pm due to bleeding from incision line. I was
planning on doing a 5 day MDS w/ ARD on 02-28 today as she had not returned
by the time I left on Friday (02-28). However, when I got here this AM she
had retuned @ 12MN on 02-28 (which is actually the start of 02-29. So should
I do a 5 day w/ ARD of 02-28 and start over w/ "Readmit to medicare" OR
since she was actually "head in the bed" @ MN just do a regular 5 day (and
just consider her the same as she'd returned @ 10pm) ?????
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