I have been doing some comparisons in the Medicare Nursing Home web site on pain
management. Out nursing home scores 20% for Residents with pain. I noticed some
Nursing homes have 0%. How do they get this score and how can I get our Nursing Home
to get there. Do these comparisons come from the information on the MDS from the pain
section? In our facility we would like to decrease our pain score for a quaility
improvement project. We get so many acute patients here on the TCU that it is going
to be hard to get the pain score down? I would appreciate any input. Mary lynn
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