subject: Are You Ready For Mds 3.0? [print this page] If you operate a skilled nursing facility, are you ready for MDS 3.0?
As you know, the MDS is a critical part of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) program for skilled nursing. The data gathered with the MDS is used for RAP/CAAs, payment, surveys and quality measures.
In addition, the MDS is used as a powerful tool for implementing standardized assessment and for facilitating care management in nursing homes and non-critical access hospital swing beds.
MDS 3.0 is designed to improve the usefulness of the MDS as well as to include the resident in the assessment process and to use standard protocols used in other settings. The CMS believes MDS 3.0 is a great improvement over MDS 2.0 because 2.0 failed to rely on residents input the very people skilled nursing facilities serve.
The CMS timeline had MDS 3.0 implementation starting Oct. 1.
Since resident interviews is such a big change between MDS 2.0 and MDS 3.0, we will discuss this part of MDS 3.0 at more length.
A major goal in MDS 3.0 was to increase residents voices by introducing more resident interview items. This change is included in Appendix D of the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual, Interviewing to Increase Resident Voice in MDS Assessments. This appendix offers suggestions on how to make interviews simple and more effective.
You may find the sections of MDS 3.0 that contain changes in resident interviews:
Section C - Cognitive Patterns
Section D Mood
Section F - Preferences for Customary Routine & Activities
