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February 2012

Hi-One: MDS 3.0 Form Changes

CMS is mandating additional changes to the MDS 3.0 forms, which become effective April 1, 2012. The changes will include new MDS items and coding changes, and a distinction between planned and unplanned discharges for completion of discharge assessments.

Hi-Tech will release these changes in March. The MDS edit and print programs are date-sensitive and will provide the correct entry screens and printed forms for the MDS Assessment Reference Date (ARD) used.

The RAI Manual and Item Set V1.08, for the April 1 forms are available at MDS 3.0 Training under Downloads. 

Leading Edge of Indiana is offering the Webinar: MDS 3.0/RUG IV Series - The April 1, 2012 Changes: 10,000 Foot View on March 15 from 1-2:30.

Hi-Tech will publicize more training opportunities as they become available.

Hi-Tech is adding additional options for allowing an authorized person to electronically sign the required areas of the MDS. 

If your facility has an electronic signature policy in place, and staff members who complete the MDS 3.0 have electronic signature privileges, you will no longer be required to print any pages of the MDS 3.0 assessment to complete it for submission. Your entire MDS 3.0 records will be stored electronically. Some set-up is required. 

Hi-Tech MDS 3.0 processing now provides three options for maintaining completed MDS records: 

• Print entire MDS to paper.
• Print only the signature pages and store remainder electronically.*
• Print no pages and store the entire MDS electronically.*

*Must meet electronic signature regulations.

Electronic signatures will also be available in Notes and Clinical Assessments.

If you currently use the Hi-Tech Activities/Events option you will begin to record these items in separate programs:

• Edit Activities (i.e., bingo, birthday party, music hour, etc.)
• Edit Events (i.e., ER visits, falls, infection, flu, etc.)

Release 12.03 will migrate all your existing records into the Activities module and allow you to select the items that you consider to be Events.

Splitting Activities from Events allows you to assign user security to each category, and perhaps limit access to confidential Event records. For example, you can allow only Nursing and Administration to access Events, while all staff can access Activities. The reporting options have also been separated to list either events or activities. 

To plan ahead for this change, please review your records under: 

• Libraries > Documentation > Activities/Events
• Documentation > Activities/Events

Hi-Four: Print a Payroll Check Stub that is Easier to Read

Release 12.03 will offer the option to print Payroll check stubs in a stronger graphical layout that is easier to read. See the sample below. (If necessary, right click and download the picture.)

After you install Release 12.03, you can call Hi-Tech for assistance in turning on this new option.

Hi-Five: MDS 3.0 Intensive Training Opportunity

Hi-Tech would like to sponsor an MDS 3.0 Intensive 3-Day Training Course presented by Harmony Health Care and designed for MDS Coordinators, Nurse Managers, Nursing Staff, Administrators, Social Workers and Therapists. To sponsor this course, we need at least 20 attendees.

If you have not already completed our survey, please review the details below and then click 
 MDS 3.0 Training Survey. Your answers to 5 questions will help us determine the level of  interest and the most desired location and month to offer the course. One person can complete the survey for the entire staff by indicating at Question 2 how many persons would attend from your facility.

Cost:

• 3-day certification:   $550 for a Harmony Client    $650 for a non-Harmony Client
• Per day:                  $185 for a Harmony Client    $217 for a non-Harmony Client

Harmony Presenters: Renay Corrigan, RN, CRRN, RAC-CT and Elisa Bovee, MS OTR/L

Typical Seminar Days: Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30 to 4:30

Course Overview:

• Day 1: Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Assessments, OBRA CATs and CAAs,
  OMRA Assessments, Short-Stay Patients
• Day 2: Hearing, Speech, Vision, Cognitive Patterns (BIMS), Mood (PHQ-9) Behavior,
  ADL Coding and Scoring, Bladder and Bowel, Active Diagnoses, Health Conditions (Pain Assessment), Swallowing/Nutritional Status, Oral/Dental Status
• Day 3: Skin Conditions, Medications, Special Treatments and Procedures, Restraints, Discharge Planning and Goal Setting, Final Rule, RUG IV Classifications, PPS Intimacy

 Harmony Healthcare is an:

• Approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc.
• Accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
• AOTA approved provider of continuing education. This course offers 2.1 AOTA CEUs.

For more information go to www..harmony-healthcare.com

On January 1, your facility received its 2012 Hi-Q Training Points, and you can use any points remaining from 2011. Call Hi-Tech to schedule on-site or phone training on any of the features described above.  

• Phone training requires 1/2 Point per hour.
• On-site training requires 1 Point per hour, and no charge for our travel time. (Travel expenses could be incurred.)
• Training in the Hi-Tech conference room. 1 Point per hour.
• Webinars require no Points. Review our Webinar Schedule.