Robin Hillier's insights into the power of the Minimum Data Set and related coding procedures are just the tip of the iceberg. She tells McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Executive Editor James M.

This connection can lead to better clinical, quality and organizational outcomes. The value of the assessment process lies in this ‘win, win’ for staff, residents, and the business.

The two other parts to the process are assessment and evaluation. If you own or manage a nursing home, using this course of action can assist you to identify an issue and successfully work through it.

Health assessment has also been described as the first part of the problem-solving method or ‘nursing process’ (Bowers and Thompson, 1988). As such, it forms a funnel for collecting information, which ...

All components of the assessment process should be documented using unambiguous terminology. The use of formal wound assessment charts may be helpful as they can focus the assessment process. There ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard ...