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Your
Guide to Survey Success and Quality Innovations
(12 Issues)
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What
Surveyors Are Looking For — This Week
The
feds are waging a high-profile campaign to expose
substandard quality of care in long-term care
facilities across the country, and your SNF
is on the front line of the battle when surveyors
show up. But if you’re armed with the field-tested
tips and strategies found in the Long-Term
Care Survey Alert, you can escape the assualt
unscathed.
Designed
to help SNF directors of nursing and administrators
cope with their survey challenges, the Long-Term
Care Survey Alert is your secret weapon
for JCAHO and state survey success.
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With
tougher surveys, new protocols, stringent quality
indicator reports, and a rising number of deficiencies,
you can’t afford to guess what’s on surveyors’
minds. The Long-Term Care Survey Alert provides
seasoned advice on what they’re looking for
and how you can impress them and increase your survey
scores:
Every
issue includes important stories on topics vital
to your facility's survey success. For example:
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Challenge
a surveyor’s findings — and win every
time. 3 simple steps usually do the trick.
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5
often-misplaced documents every SNF will need
when surveyors arrive.
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7
F-Tags that will brand you as a poor performer
— and one surefire way to avoid them.
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Turn
surveyors away empty-handed? You can do it, if
you know the ropes.
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Residents’
rights: why you already may be violating them,
unless you take these key actions.
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Kitchen
duty for the DON? Don’t laugh — it could
save you a bundle on your next survey.
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Are
physician orders putting your facility at risk?
A quick test will say for sure.
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SOS:
11 ways to pull yourself out of a survey disaster.
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Meds
that raise red flags with surveyors and what you
can do about it.
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The
do’s and don’ts of using side rails:
why most facilities get it wrong.
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How
to make sure restorative nursing doesn’t
put your facility in the hot seat.
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How
to get families on your side in handling state
surveyors.
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5
words you should never put in a care plan.
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Cut
falls in half with this simple toileting schedule
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