Nursing Home Abuse Podcast 191- How to Read MDS Assessments

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Find out what MDS assessments mean for your family member in a nursing home! Learn easy ways to understand MDS assessments so you can make better choices about their care. This week, lawyer Rob Schenk shares tips to help you figure out what these assessments say about your loved one's health.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:51 Question of the Week
00:08:48 Joke of the Week
00:09:53 What is the MDS Assessment?
00:11:00 How to obtain the MDS Assessment?
00:11:24 Why is the MDS Assessment important?
00:12:30 How to read the MDS Assessment?

[@rtanger11]

Appreciate the insight. As someone who lives MDS I would make a few clarifications. The Discharge MDS is valuable if a loved one is sent to the hospital because it is reflective of their status the day they left the nursing home (good to know if they had a pressure injury before they went to the hospital and what stage it was). Section J is also important to review falls. The nurse signing at Z0500 is not signing for accuracy they are signing for completion. The attestation statement is for those signing at Z0400.