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CareWatch® helps you improve survey outcomes and assure proper reimbursement for your services while reducing risk and liability. Customers that subscribe to CareWatch® have ...
- lowered insurance costs,
- reduced survey citations
- achieved a better case mix index thru management of MDS and SNF admissions.
The CareWatch® repository has all the key information required to manage within the new IDPA MDS payment system. CareWatch® helps make the SNF workforce a more efficient and effective team.
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Benefits
Intangible benefits include focused care planning, measures of improvement in clinical team function, and better documentation of resident care. With the CareWatch® organization roll-up feature, you see current results of all the nursing home work from multiple-facility organizations on one web-based report within seconds.
CareWatch® easily empowers nursing home staff to use evidence-based management to improve resident care and lower costs. You will reduced waste at all levels of the organization. Several of our subscribers have used CareWatch® to improve operations to the point of attaining record profits.
CareWatch® helps improve MDS Data Integrity. Have you heard about Project DAVE? This is the CMS project to audit MDS clinical data for accuracy and verification. CareWatch® is a tool that improves your facilities’ ability to undergo a DAVE audit. This is because CareWatch® allows your staff to submit MDS for data integrity review before submission to the State in order to identify inconsistencies in the MDS and then correct the MDS to improve the data integrity.
These results prove that CareWatch® enhances the resident’s Chain of Trust in the care they receive. Further
CareWatch® gives you the ability to manage based on today’s needs in the organization. CareWatch® is easy to implement and use. Registered Nurses designed CareWatch® to follow the rule that no nurse manager should be more than three clicks of a mouse away from a final answer on a resident care issue.
Facility managers use CareWatch®
for a variety of purposes including those listed below..
- MDS Coordinators pre-screen MDS submissions to eliminate logic flags or to justify them by placing better documentation in the resident chart.
- Directors of Nursing (DON) use the Resident Alerts and Sentinel Events to find those residents who have deteriorated between assessments and to then review care to make sure that any deterioration was unavoidable. This improves chart documentation; care plans, and helps staff make a difference.
- DONs, ADONs, Staff Development, and Quality Improvement Staff use the QI/QM Benchmarks and analysis to determine what QIs/QMs need to be addressed and what residents need more care and help.
- Administrators can follow the daily Case Mix and help manage admissions and census to achieve case mix goals.
Corporate Staff use CareWatch® as follows:
- Risk Mangers track sentinel events, Quality Indicators, problem residents to put in place plans to control risk and loss
- Corporate Clinical Care Leaders use the Watch Pages to review resident deterioration like the DON, except for many facilities at once. Corporate staffs use the charts to monitor trends and to reward clinical success as well as call attention to concerns.
- IT staff use CareWatch®
to monitor MDS submission frequency, schedule MDS data collection and to pull data for management in a quick and cost effective manner.
- Compliance officers use care watch as an auditing tool so audits address 100% of MDS and not just a sample.
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In Summary, CareWatch® tools help staff improve MDS reporting and focus their work to improve resident well-being. It saves labor and is easy to use. It supports evidence-based management of care. It helps you manage based on today’s needs. Owners lower cost, compliance improves and profits are strengthened.
CareWatch® is based on the work of Shewhart, Deming and Juran, specifically in the area of continuous quality improvement. With CareWatch®, your organization will gain insight and develop a profound understanding of the ebb and flow of nursing home care.
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