Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The next CMS Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)/Long Term Care (LTC) Open Door Forum scheduled for:   Date:  Thursday, August 31, 2023 Start Time:  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET) Please dial-in at least 15 minutes before call start time. NOTE: To participate in this…… Continue reading SNF/LTC Open Door Forum: August 31, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Five Star Preview Reports will be available on or around August 24, 2023. Provider Preview Reports have moved to iQIES as of August 2023. Please follow the steps below to locate the Provider Preview Report in iQIES: 1) Log into iQIES at https://iqies.cms.gov/ using your Health Care…… Continue reading Five-Star Preview Reports (August 2023) Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare What’s New – August 24, 2023 UPDATED: Final MDS 3.0 Item Sets version 1.18.11 v5 The final Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Item Sets version (v)1.18.11 have been updated and are now available in the Downloads section on theMinimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument…… Continue reading CMS Posts the FINAL Version of the v1.18.11 MDS 3.0 Item Sets

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare No kidding – the FINAL RAI User’s Manual for v1.18.11 was literally just posted by CMS. What’s New – August 22, 2023 NOW AVAILABLE: Final MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual version 1.18.11 The final Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) User’s Manual version…… Continue reading FINAL MDS 3.0 RAI User’s Manual v1.18.11 for October 2023 Posted – Really!

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare A Post-Event Q&A document from the SNF MDS 3.0 RAI v1.18.11 Guidance Training Program is now available. This document contains responses to questions asked throughout the training program. See “2023_August_SNF Guidance Training Program_Q&A” in the Downloads section below. The direct link to the August 2023 Q&A is here. It’s 62…… Continue reading Post-Event Materials Available: SNF MDS 3.0 RAI v1.18.11 Guidance Training Program

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The subtitle for this Press Release, released August 23, 2023, is Nearly 450,000 Residents At Risk Of Displacement Under Federal Staffing Mandate. ​​WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and other long term…… Continue reading New Report Finds Access To Nursing Home Care A Growing Crisis

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Effective August 21, 2023, MDS 3.0 Frequency data will be available from a new location on the data.cms.gov website (https://data.cms.gov/quality-of-care/minimum-data-set-frequency). This new website replaces the previous MDS 3.0 Frequency Report webpage which was decommissioned on August 1, 2023. Users will find very similar information on this new…… Continue reading New MDS 3.0 Frequency Report Website