PDPM
The acronym for PDPM.
What is Patient Driven Payment Model?
This person must be informed of witnessed or alledged abuse in the facility.
Gloves, Gown, Face Mask, Eye Protection.
What is PPE?
To maintain a productive work environment and meet the goals of the facility, Life Care expects its associates to be reliable and punctual in reporting to work each day.
What is the Attendance Policy?
This Region Team member can hit a softball so far that she needed to get her pilots license to fly to go find all the softballs.
Who is Laurie Zande, RDSM?
The five buckets that make up reimbursement for residents with a PDPM payors.
What is PT, OT, ST, Nursing, and NTA?
This should be worn at all times so that staff can be recognized by name and department.
What is Name Tag?
This should be performed before and after contact with a patient, immediately after touching blood, body fluids, non-intact skin, mucous membranes, or contaminated items (even when gloves are worn during contact), immediately after removing gloves, when moving from contaminated body sites to clean body sites.
What is Hand Hygiene?
Life Care strongly encourages ongoing performance feedback between associates and their supervisors throughout their employment.
What is Performance Evaluations?
Being from LaPorte County didn't keep this region team member from raising chickens and bunnies.
Who is Susan Moore, CRS?
This sets the clinical category and is determined by reviewing the admission paperwork and discussing the clinical characteristics of the patient.
What is the primary diagnosis?
This must be sent within 10 calendar days after receiving the 2567.
What is Plan of Correction?
These are the minimum infection prevention practices that apply to all patient care, regardless of suspected or confirmed infection status of the patient.
What is Standard Precaution?
This policy is designed to protect Life Care, its associates and its patients rather than to restrict appropriate, lawful protected speech and the flow of useful and appropriate information.
What is the Social Media Policy?
These two can update a careplan while administering medication while reviewing a 2567... oh and they love bingo!
Who are Kim McMullins, RDCS and Nellie Alexander, RDCS?
This score is a weighted count of certain comorbidities from a list of 50 conditions that relate to increase cost of care.
What is NTA comorbidity score?
This program, which you might think is from the movie "Its a Wonderful Life", is great way to avoid compliant surveys.
What is the Guardian Angel Program?
This lonely practice is often necessary when a patient has an infectious condition that could be passed on to others.
What is Isolation?
Life Care shall maintain this, as the foundation of its Compliance and Ethics Program.
This "Regional" team member's favorite movie is "Field" of Dreams and has designed her own video game "Controller".
Who is Lisa Gundlach, RFC?
What is HIPPS code?
This is a type of event that can cause permanent harm, severe temporary harm and/or intervention required to sustain life and each incident must be reported to the state.
What is a Sentinel Event?
This employee is a registered nurse (RN) who implements best practices for halting the spread of viruses and bacteria and delivers top care to patients who have contracted infectious diseases.
What is an Infection Preventionist?
This policy is to ensure Life Care Associates maintain appropriate relationships with third parties, including residents and patients and their families, health care practitioners, suppliers, vendors, contractors, and competitors so no third-party has, or appears to have, an opportunity to inappropriately influence Life Care decisions or activities.
What is Conflict of Interest Policy?
This Red Devil started her career with Life Care as an executive secretary 20 years ago.
Who is Kim Ready, RVP?