Things that Bump in the Night
Number 1 cause of Falls in a Nursing Home.
What are environmental obstacles?
Appliance that is surgically implanted to assist the left ventricle supply oxygenated blood to the body.
What is an Left Ventricle Assist Device LVAD?
PDPM
What is Patient Driven Payment Model?
Community expenses often hidden in closets or drawers at the community.
DME being rented and not returned to the company.
Resident falls caused from imbalances.
What is an unsteady gait?
According to Zach, patients must fulfill very specific criteria including severe heart failure with an ejection fraction <25%.
Who would qualify to receive an LVAD?
Currently SNF facilities are required to use the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 assessment tool to assign residents to a resource utilization groups (RUGs), also known as case-mix groups.
What is a RUG-IV model?
Current Law suits for the Dallas BU.
What is 12?
Resident falls caused from the need to urinate.
What is failure to respond quickly to a call light?
Most common complication with LVAD patients.
What is a “drive-line infection”, essentially an infection of the power cable that comes out of the body.
Therapy minutes in PDPM.
What is removal of therapy minutes as the basis for therapy payment?
Largest expense that can be controlled with daily management.
What is managing employee time and expenses.
Resident at risk for falls in Nursing Home setting.
What is a Fall Risk Evaluation?
What is a patient with an LVAD.
Dependent on a wide range of clinical characteristics rather than being primarily a function of therapy minutes and functional status
What is focus for reimbursement on nursing services?
The bases for the majority of our legal actions against a community.
What are falls with injury?
Proven to reduce future falls for residents at risk.
What is a Fall Risk Program?
Reason for a gapping hole in the heart.
What could happen if normal CPR (chest compressions) are performed on an LVAD patient.
Clinical categories that represent the primary reason for SNF care and are used for resident classification across three components in the PDPM.
What are ICD-10 codes?
Triggered by contracted provider's inability to manage the costs and waste of supplies to the communities.
Who is the currently contracted pharmacy.