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Published on Wed Jan 26, 2005

Pressure Ulcers: Essential Systems for Quality Care

The following information suggests areas to focus on while evaluating facility processes for preventing and treating pressure ulcers.

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Long-Term Care Survey Alert

Survey Management:
Ditch Tag-Along Tags For Pressure Ulcers
Prepare now for surveyors to do more 'root cause' analysis of wounds.

No one likes a [...]

Survey Appeals:
Use IDR, Appeals To Cut Loose Tag-Along Tags
Know when and how to defend your record.

Call it quadruple jeopardy: Your facility has one [...]

Staffing Management:
Cure Survey And Fiscal Ills With These 4 Systemic Staffing Strategies
Follow this staffing path to stellar resident - and survey - outcomes.

Expert staffing management not [...]

What Do You Think?
Under the revised F314 tag, can facilities still make a viable argument to convince surveyors [...]

Abuse Reporting:
Beware Federal Stance On Abuse Reporting Requirements
CMS clarification ignites new survey worries ... here's how to navigate the uncertainty.

To report or [...]

Regulatory Monitoring:
Check Out CMS' Definitions Of Abuse
Definitions offer a little wiggle room for injuries of unknown origin. Get on the same [...]

Test Yourself:
What's Your Informal Dispute Resolution IQ?
True or False?

1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services doesn't have to accept [...]

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When Can Your Facility Request IDR Based On Survey Revisit Results Or Previous IDR Outcome?
This handy chart provides the answers.

A facility may request informal dispute resolution for each survey [...]

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Pressure Ulcers: Essential Systems for Quality Care The following information suggests areas to focus on [...]

Survey & Clinical News To Use
CMS plans to get tougher with its Special Focus Facility Program for substandard nursing facilities. [...]

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