| Long-Term
Care Survey Alert (12
Monthly Issues)
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. 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: •
Challenge a surveyor’s findings — and win every time. 3 simple steps
usually do the trick.
• 5 often-misplaced documents every SNF will need
when surveyors arrive.
•
7 F-Tags that will brand you as a poor performer — and one surefire way to
avoid them.
• Turn surveyors away empty-handed? You can do it, if you
know the ropes.
•
Residents’ rights: why you already may be violating them, unless you take
these key actions.
• Kitchen duty for the DON? Don’t laugh —
it could save you a bundle on your next survey.
• Are physician orders
putting your facility at risk? A quick test will say for sure.
•
SOS: 11 ways to pull yourself out of a survey disaster.
•
Meds that raise red flags with surveyors and what you can do about it.
•
The do’s and don’ts of using side rails: why most facilities get it
wrong.
• How to make sure restorative nursing doesn’t put your
facility in the hot seat.
•
How to get families on your side in handling state surveyors.
•
5 words you should never put in a care plan.
• Cut falls in half with
this simple toileting schedule. 
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