MDS Coordinator

About the role

The MDS Coordinator is responsible for the overall supervision, coordination, maintenance and timely completion of the MDS, care plans, and medical records for residents.

Responsibilities

• Verifies all MDS for both Medicare and Long-Term residents are accurate and completed in a timely manner.
• Supervises subordinate MDS coordinators.
• Ensure that all assessments are accurate and completed in a timely manner.
• Oversee the monthly Triple Check meeting and ensure that it is scheduled according to accounting needs.
• Congntrates, conducts, and completes the MDS, resident care plans and conferences on the computerized system.
• Assures accuracy and completeness of entire medical record within HFCA and Medicare standards and guidelines.
• Ensure MDS electronic submission occurs per State of Texas regulations.
• Participates in family/resident care plan conferences.
• Assures effective communication with other shifts and departments as it relates to medical record documentation.
• Notifies physicians and family of changes in residents’ condition.
• Encourages rehabilitative techniques in order to restore resident’s independence.
• Assists DON in developing and implementing medical records policies and procedures.
• Audits resident charts as assigned.
• Coordinates the restorative program.
• Presents / attends in-service training and education sessions, as assigned.
• Performs specific work duties and responsibilities assigned by supervisor.
• Assures timeliness of physicians’ visits.

Hospitality Focus

Carillon Senior Living Fully Embraces a Culture Of Hospitality. To That End, We Include The Following Hospitality Promises As A Guide For Our Interpersonal Interactions With Residents, Co-workers, And Guests

• We greet residents, employees and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
• We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
• We embrace and value our differences.
• We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
• We ask, “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
• We pay attention to details.