by Proactive LTC Consulting | Mar 31, 2021 | Antipsychotics/Psychotropics, Blog, Compliance, Nursing, Quality Measure, Regulatory, SNF
Are you ready for the annual survey and the Unnecessary Medications, Psychotropic Medications, and Medication Regimen Review task that is part of that process? Surveyors select 5 residents to conduct this review on following the Critical Element Pathway. Consider... by Proactive LTC Consulting | Mar 26, 2021 | 5-Star, COVID-19, Regulatory, Survey
Q: Now that standard surveys are beginning to resume, will surveyors still conduct the annual survey if we have active COVID-19 cases in the facility and will it trigger them to combine a Focused Infection Control (FIC) Survey with the annual survey? A: Yes,... by Proactive LTC Consulting | Mar 19, 2021 | 5-Star, Blog, Quality Measure, Regulatory, Staffing
2020 was anything but normal in terms of survey processes and 5-Star rating system updates. All three of the 5-Star rating system domains were temporarily held constant at some point during 2020. On Jan. 27, 2021, CMS resumed calculating nursing home 5-Star ratings... by Proactive LTC Consulting | Mar 10, 2021 | Activities, Blog, COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Regulatory
There’s nothing quite like a National Public Health Emergency to shake things up and force an altered perspective. Most providers are doing well to keep up with near-daily changes relative to managing the pandemic in its current form and, in a whirlwind of Infection... by Proactive LTC Consulting | Mar 3, 2021 | ADL, Blog, COVID-19, Regulatory, Restorative
Last week we reviewed Restorative Nursing and its relationship with COVID in part 1 of this 2-part series. It’s been a tumultuous time in long-term care and restorative programs may have had to be put on the back burner temporarily. How do we rebuild and possibly even... by Proactive LTC Consulting | Feb 24, 2021 | ADL, Blog, COVID-19, Regulatory, Restorative
In the heat of the pandemic battle, staffing shortages and emergency prioritization of tasks left many facilities with no choice but to triage programming. Functional decline is not unusual as residents already prone to decline faced pandemic driven activity...