What are the responsibilities and job description for the MDS Coordinator position at Hillcrest Health Care Services?
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.
- Provides direct nursing care as necessary.
- Prepares for and participates in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies.
- Supports in QAPI to develop and implement appropriate plans of action to correct identified deficiencies.
- Coordinates the interdisciplinary team in timely completion of the assessments.
- Utilizes MDS Scheduler to plan and set MDS Assessment Reference Dates (ARDs).
- Communicates ARD selection for specific MDSs to IDT.
- Accomplishes the MDS sections as assigned.
- Fulfills CAAs as required.
- Completes Care Plan items and attends Care Plan meetings as assigned.
- Implements monthly infection tracking log.
- Concludes UDA’s during observation period.
- Finalizes diagnosis coding and creates diagnosis sheets.
- Confirms skilled physician’s certification.
- Monitors overall the documentation in the medical record to validate that it supports MDS coding.
- Participates in skilled utilization and State Case Mix management as assigned.
- Delivers teaching and training for MDS item completion to interdisciplinary team members that have responsibility for MDS item completion.
- Provides teaching and mentoring of CNA staff along with Director of Nurses and Staff Development related to completion of the Nursing ADL documentation.
- Signs off on Minimum Data Set (MDS) for each resident within the facility.