MDS Coordinator

About the Role

The MDS Coordinator assists the Director of Nursing and the RN Assessment Coordinator in ensuring documentation meets Federal, State, and Certification guidelines. This role coordinates the RAI process to assure timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of the MDS, CAAs, and Interdisciplinary Care Plan.

Responsibilities

• Assists the center in adhering to Federal and State regulations and certification standards.
• Actively participates in regulatory or certification surveys and the correction of deficiencies.
• Reports trends from completed audits to the Quality Assurance Committee.
• Ensures completion of the RAI Process from the MDS through the interdisciplinary completion of the care plan.
• Initiates and monitors RAI process tracking, discharge/reentry, and Medicaid tracking forms through the PointClickCare system.
• Follows up with staff to assure compliance with documentation standards.
• Completes patient assessments, data collection, and interviews staff to assure good standard of practice as instructed in the current MDS User’s Manual.
• Facilitates accurate determination of the Assessment Reference Date to reflect the patient’s care needs and capture all resources utilized for appropriate payment by Medicare/Medicaid and insurance programs.
• Ensures timely submission of MDSs to the State with proper follow-up on validation errors.
• Maintains validation records from the submission process in a systematic and orderly fashion.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) program and licensed in the state of practice.
• Minimum of 2 years of nursing experience in a Skilled Nursing Facility preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of Case-Mix, the Federal Medicare PPS process, and Medicaid reimbursement.
• Thorough understanding of the Quality Indicator process.
• Knowledge of OBRA regulations and the Minimum Data Set (MDS).
• Knowledge of the care planning process.