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You have my prayers and deepest sympathy!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:41
PM
Subject: RE: Surveyors
well good luck Lisa, sounds like you are
going to need it. I have been @ a couple of positions that have been
vacant for a while and it was a nightmare. Kind of like "why did I take this
Job?" I don't know how big your new facility is or if the software can
tell you who is overdue for assessments? The first thing I did was to go
thru each chart and see when the last person had an MDS done and were they
overdue? are they due next for a quarterly? annual? I hate to take
a lot of "lates"
@ one job but, at least I got caught up
and stayed current.
hope that helps
BILL
Monday I started at a new facility knowing that I was walking into poop
chest high. MDs had not been done for the month of February. 90
minutes after walking in to a new job state showed up. I was
speechless. MDS were a mess to put it mildly. Example patient
admitted in September ARD was 09/18/03, signatures on front were 01/30/04
and the close date 02/06/04. Explain that to a surveyor! Also
they found an MDS ARD 12/19/03 that had been coded 8 on bathing. When
I looked at the CNA documentation, it clearly stated on 12/17/03 that person
had got a bath and was a 4/2. I copied that and then did a
modification. Luckily the surveyors knew that I had just started and I
feel they were easy. Obviously I got cited for MDS but I think it will
be at an E level. ANy words of wisdom to clear all this mess up would
be appreciated. Obviously due to coding errors I probably will be
doing a lot of sig changes. Upon looking at the history of the MDS it
appears this nurse did modifications on almost every assessment she
did. Crazy!
Lisa
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