Administrative Enhancements    
For those users who have security permissions and are able to add new users, we have changed the requirements regarding user IDs when creating a new account in the system. 

From this point forward user IDs must be 3-30 characters in length with the following characters allowable in the ID:  A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and _ (underscore).  Other characters such as *%& will no longer be accepted by the system for user IDs.  This change will help prevent processing problems and will improve overall security. 

Please make sure to refer to your organization's user ID policy and password policy when adding new users to maintain compliance within your organization.

  Illinois Watch Updates
We have made adjustments to several Illinois Watch Medicaid pages for facilities who are a certified dementia care unit. 

For those who are, the CDCU rules are now included in the calculations for the 2006 versions of the following pages:

• Reimbursable Service / Need Items
• Illinois Medicaid Facility Percentiles
• Resident List for Reimbursable Service / Need Items (drill through page)
• Resident Details for Reimbursable Service / Need Items (drill through page)
• Illinois Medicaid ADL Watch 

Because of these changes, you may notice some slight variations with your numerical counts on these pages.

Remember, if your facility is a certified dementia care unit and you wish to have this noted for the purposes of your watch page calculations and restorative programs, please contact us directly at 937-767-1885 so that we can enable this function for you. 

  Resident Specific PUSH Tool Page
A new drill through page for PUSH assessments has been added which allows you to see all of the PUSH assessments that have been entered for a specific resident at one time, on one page.

To see the new page, log in to RiskWatch^® and click the link, "Enter PUSH," found below the heading, Report Entry, on the gold navigation menu to the left of the screen.  This will open the PUSH assessment page.  You will notice on the page that the name of the residents listed here are now all underlined links. 

To see a complete list of assessments entered for a specific resident on the PUSH entry page, click her/his underlined name.  A new page will then open which contains a table of each PUSH assessment entered for that particular resident for the date range that you have selected.  If you know that a certain resident has multiple PUSH assessments, but you don't see them when you click on her/his name, you may need to review the dates that the page is opening to and adjust them accordingly.

See below for a snapshot of the new resident specific PUSH assessment page:

These pages are accessible to RiskWatch^® users who have Reporter permissions in the system and are available at the facility level only.

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