Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare October 18, 2022 … Both the MDS as well as the PBJ CASPER Reporting User’s Guides show as being updated.   I haven’t yet discovered what has been updated in either of the Guides but wanted to call both to your attention as I know there…… Continue reading CASPER Reporting User’s Guides (MDS and PBJ) Updated

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on October 24, 2022. To access these reports, select the CASPER Reporting link located on the CMS QIES Systems for Providers page. Once in the CASPER Reporting system, select the ‘Folders’ button, then select ‘My Inbox’ or the…… Continue reading Five Star Preview Reports Available on October 24, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare MDH offers options for Nurse Aides working during the Federal 1135 Waiver to become certified for a limited time. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) received an extension for the 1135 waiver for nurse aides working during the 1135 waiver, who provided essential care to Minnesota’s…… Continue reading MN Nurse Aide 1135 Waiver Extended to April 5, 2023 or End of the PHE Whichever Comes First

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Late on Thursday afternoon, October 13, 2022, CMS posted the updated Design for Care Compare Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users’ Guide_October 2022. The 36-page Guide contains these revisions: Quality Measure Rating Threshold changes Effective with the October 2022 refresh, CMS is implementing the…… Continue reading CMS Posts Updated Five-Star Users’ Guide

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Earlier this week, the CDC posted this Annual Influenza Vaccination Data Reporting for the 2022-2023 Influenza Season: Summary of Key Points for LTC Facilities.  The CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Vaccination Unit provided a webinar for long-term Care (LTC) facilities on Tuesday, September 27, 2022…… Continue reading Annual Influenza Vaccination Data Reporting for the 2022-2023 Influenza Season: Summary of Key Points for Long-term Care Facilities

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the January 2023 refresh. The data contained within the Preview Reports are…… Continue reading SNF Provider Preview Reports Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The title of this blog is one of the highlights from a study published September 30, 2022 in the American Journal of Infection Control. Other highlights include: •  Floors and shoes are potential sources for dissemination of pathogens •  A benign virus inoculated on the floor…… Continue reading Shoes and Wheelchair Wheels Transferred MRSA From Room to Room in LTCFs

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Friday, October 7, 2022, AHCA/NCAL issued this press release (same title as this blog). “The Biden administration is expected to issue a federal minimum staffing mandate for nursing homes. As the long term care sector continues to face a historic labor crisis, experts are questioning how the proposed mandate…… Continue reading Experts Question How Nursing Homes Will Pay For More Staff Amid Anticipated Minimum Staffing Mandate

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted updates to the LTCSP on October 4, 2022. The direct link to each of these files/folders: Revision History for LTC Survey Process Documents and Files Updated 10/04/2022 (PDF) Survey Resources with Staff Vaccine Documents 10/04/2022 (ZIP) Appendix PP State Operations Manual (Revised 10/04/2022) (PDF)  …… Continue reading CMS Updates Long-Term Care Survey Process Documents

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP  Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Join us Wednesday, October 19 from 12-1 pm CT to outline the roles and responsibilities of incident command response and the role it plays in emergency preparedness planning. Following this event, participants will be able to define and classify the response phases and impediments to care…… Continue reading Upcoming Disaster Management Overview