Make your mock tracer activities a snap with this quick-and-easy tool!
Save time, effort, and aggravation . . .
Focus your survey preparation efforts where it matters most: on the critical 10% of Joint Commission standards that account for 90% of all survey findings. The Mock Tracer Monitor helps you pinpoint precisely where your facility needs the most work.
WOW Joint Commission surveyors during your next unannounced survey . . .
Identify issues before the survey team arrives, and you’ll have time to implement improvements in advance of their visit.
Tackle your toughest tracer challenges with simple tools from the experts . . .
Now there’s a quick and easy-to-use resource that makes it a snap to track your mock tracer patients and identify the weak areas your organization needs to address. The Mock Tracer Monitor mirrors precisely the type of tracer activity you can expect a surveyor to conduct during an actual survey.
The Mock Tracer Monitor is a CD-based product that includes:
- Nine paper-based tracing tools
- A companion spreadsheet to compile your data and generate helpful, easy-to-read reports
- A step-by-step user’s manual with instructions for staff training, the paper tools, and the spreadsheet. It includes screenshot instructions, tips, strategies, and useful advice for conducting and managing your mock tracer.
Take the fear and guesswork out of your survey preparation efforts . . .
The Mock Tracer Monitor is a first-of-its-kind tool to conduct mock tracers. Our survey preparation experts designed it specifically to simplify the tracer process for you and your staff. It will walk you through the tracer process, step-by-step, targeting the most common problem areas, and making it easier than ever for you to:
- Trace patients through your organization using processes similar to surveyors.
- Identify areas that are not in compliance and take the necessary steps to correct them.
- Provide your leadership with reports that pinpoint exactly where your organization stands in terms of standards compliance.
- Train your staff to be comfortable—and confident—with the tracer process.
Vivid, graphical reporting prepares your staff for The Joint Commission survey . . .
Developed by the accreditation experts at The Greeley Company (a division of HCPro), The Mock Tracer Monitor reveals your organization’s level of compliance so you can fix problem areas long before the surveyors arrive.
Best of all, The Mock Tracer Monitor makes it easy to keep staff trained on tracer activities, allowing everyone to put his/her best foot forward and feel confident during an unannounced survey.
The Mock Tracer Monitor provides you with nine different tracing tools on one convenient CD-ROM:
- Tool 1: The Core Setting Tool
Start with the medical record, just like an actual surveyor! - Tool 2: The Care Location Tool
For any location you visit: the starting unit, the ICU, the emergency department, the operating room, imaging, rehab, etc. - Tools 3, 4, 5, and 6: The Special Issues Tools
For medications, sedation/anesthesia/hi-risk, restraint, and boarded patients. - Tool 7: The Staff/Physician Tool
For competency and credentialing/privileging checks. - Tool 8: The Data Use/Infections Tool
To ensure you have all required data displays on hand when the survey team arrives. - Tool 9: The Environment of Care Tool
For reviewing common problem areas related to the physical environment.
Simply circle an issue on the tracer tool, then use the companion spreadsheets to analyze the pattern of findings and generate easy-to-read reports that pinpoint your organization’s compliance.
It takes 10 minutes—or less—to enter the data and generate your report. It’s just that simple. Plus, you’ll receive a step-by-step manual that walks you through this quick and easy process.
We know you don’t have a minute to spare.
The Mock Tracer Monitor will help you make the most efficient use of your time when preparing for an unannounced survey. Invest in your organization’s future and say goodbye to day-long mock tracers!
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If for any reason The Mock Tracer Monitor does not meet your needs, return it within 30 days and you will receive a prompt, polite, 100% refund—no questions asked. We guarantee it!
About the authors
Claude (Bud) Pate, REHS joined The Greeley Company after 15 years at Kaiser Permanente. He was responsible for standards and survey processes established by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the California Department of Health Services (DHS), and the Office of State-wide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).
John R. Rosing, MHA, FACHE is an eight-year senior consultant with The Greeley Company, specializing in areas of patient safety, process improvement, clinical and non-clinical operations redesign Joint Commission accreditation and CMS compliance, medical staff structure and function redesign, and medical staff credentialing and privileging.
Brenda Gail Summers, MBA/MHA, MSN, RN, CNAA is a senior consultant with The Greeley Company, assisting clients in preparation for a Joint Commission survey. A recipient of North Carolina’s Great 100 award for nursing leadership excellence, she received her BSN and MSN degrees from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and her MBA/MHA from Pfeiffer University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jennifer Paugh, MBA, a native of West Virginia, is an industrial engineer at a 300-bed regional healthcare facility. She earned both a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from West Virginia University. Paugh assisted with building the Mock Tracer Monitor tools.
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