Short-Stay Residents in Long-Term Care
Maximizing Length of Stay and Managing the Medicare Cycle
Product Description:
AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND
Sponsored by Billing Alert for Long-Term Care
presented on January 13, 2009
Education and assessment strategies to optimize short-stay residents
and prevent re-hospitalization
Residents are staying for shorter periods in nursing homes. Many of these short-stay patients are disabled or cognitively impaired and require a different set of skills and documentation in order to properly tend to their needs. If a resident is re-hospitalized after being in your care, it could end up costing your facility time and money; especially if it could’ve been prevented.
Achieve clinical and financial success with short-stay residents
Listen to HCPro and speakers Frosini Rubertino, RN, CRNAC, C-NE, CDONA/LTC and Eric Doerhoff, LNHA, on January 13 for the 90-minute audio conference Short-Stay Residents in Long-Term Care: Maximizing Length of Stay and Managing the Medicare Cycle. Our expert speakers are prepared to explain what factors affect the success of short-stay residents and offer valuable tips on pre-screening, technological needs, documentation, staffing, and more. You’ll also gain effective communication strategies for a truly interdisciplinary approach.
Purchase today to maximize the length of stay (LOS), provide top-notch care, and prevent hospital re-admission of short-stay residents. A 30-minute Q & A follows the presentation.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your own short-stay programs
- Implement changes to strengthen your chances for positive clinical outcomes and greater financial success
- State the importance of team work, collaboration, and communication
- Recognize the need for preparation, communication, and skills training as key components for short stay
- Conduct skills assessment and explain the necessary education for success
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Maximizing length of stay
- Properly capture level of care
- Accurate documentation to support services
- Preventing re-hospitalizations
- Improve staff skills
- Observation and reporting
- Minimum staffing ratios
- Daily rounds
- Dealing with the clinically challenging
- Define interventions, plans, and goals
- An interdisciplinary approach
- Management of the Medicare cycle
- Setting the Assessment Reference Date (ARD)
- MCR cycle education
- Discharge planning
- Begins on admission
- Resident involvement
- Discharge summary
- Q&A
BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- Pre-admission worksheet
- Mock agenda for skill fair
These materials are provided with PDF links.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Frosini Rubertino, RN, CRNAC, C-NE, CDONA/LTC, is a registered nurse with over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Former president of an Ohio-based long-term care consulting and education firm, and a former member of the Arkansas Healthcare Association’s Education Committee, she is currently a clinical services consultant with an Arkansas-based clinical consultant group.
Eric Doerhoff, LNHA, is a senior consultant at BKD in Springfield, MO. Doerhoff specializes in assisting long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in operational improvements, such as documentation and billing procedures, corporate compliance, budget analysis, business process improvements, contract reviews and fee structure analysis.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Administrators, therapy, billers, nurse managers, directors of nursing, clinical managers, charge nurses, floor nurses, MDS coordinators, case managers, admission director, social service
AUDIO ON-DEMAND
In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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