Get Prepared for April 1 MDS Updates!

CMS has announced that changes and clarifications are coming to the MDS 3.0 and will go into effect on April 1, 2012. So what do you need to know?

The changes contain:

• New definitions for planned and unplanned discharges
• Adjustments to Section Q that reduce the frequency of questions about a resident's preferences on returning to the community
• Less frequent edits to the resident assessment instrument (RAI)

To download the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual (v1.08), click here.