Skilled Nursing Policies & Procedures
General
- Abuse & Crime Reporting Policy
- Additional Development Request
- Admission of the Resident
- Advance Directives Policy
- Advanced Care Planning
- Approved Abbreviations
- Bathing Choice
- Bowel Management Protocol EHR
- Bowel Management Retraining Program
- Care and Use of Suction Machine
- Care Planning
- Change of Condition Observing Recording and Reporting
- CMS SNF Regulations
- Consistent Staffing
- Consumer Directed Care
- Critical Incident Notification
- Dining Choices for Residents
- Discharge Transfer of the Resident
- DNR Policy
- Documentation of Self-Administration of Medications
- Electronic Signature for Medical Records
- Elopement Missing Resident Procedure
- Elopement Risk Assessment
- Emergency Removal of Employee Access to Matrix
- Emergency Staffing
- Employee Reporting Crime Posting
- Fall Prevention and Management
- Fluid Intake and Output
- Fluid Restriction
- Food Safety Chart
- Food Storage-Personal
- Glucometer Cleaning
- Grievance Committee Policy and Procedures
- Hospice
- Incident and Accident Occurrences Protocol
- Infection Control Contact Precautions
- Infection Control Droplet Precautions
- Infection Control Enhanced Barrier Precautions
- Infection Control Needle Recapping
- Infection Control Reportable Diseases
- Infection Control Special Precautions
- Infection Control Surveillance
- Infection Control-Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Policy
- Infection Control-TB Exposure Control Plan
- Infection Preventionist
- Infections Definitions and Antibiotic Stewardship
- Infectious Disease Outbreak Control
- Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccines
- Insurance Documentation
- Leaving Against Medical Advice (AMA)
- Licensed Practical Nurses MDS Responsibilities
- Light Therapy
- Lippincott Online Procedures
- Local Facility Quarterly Quality Assurance Committee
- MatrixCare Resident Document Folders – Types
- Medical Marijuana
- Medical Nutrition Therapy Documentation Policy
- Medicare Certification and Recertification Statements
- Medicare Notice of Noncoverage Policy
- Medication Error Report
- Medication Reconciliation-Discharge
- Medication Regimen Review
- Medication Storage
- Medication-Destruction of Controlled Substances
- Medline EvenCare Glucose Meter
- Minimum Data Set Completion and Assigned Sections
- Missing Item Policy
- Music and Memory Playlist
- NOMNC Policy
- Notification of Change
- Nurse Aide Training Reimbursement
- Nursing Facility_Single Unit Dose Medication
- Orientation of Agency Personnel Nurses
- Orientation of the Resident to the Facility
- Overhead Paging
- Oxygen Administration and Handling
- Oxygen-Education Handout
- Pain Management
- Permitting Return of the Resident after Discharge
- Physician Credentialing
- Physician Services
- Post-Mortem Care
- Preference for Everyday Living Inventory
- Prevention, Detection and Treatment of Pressure Sores
- Psychotropic Medications
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Plan
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Policy
- Quarterly Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Committee
- Request for Medical Records
- Resident Fund Accounts
- Resident Room and Roommate Change Within the Facility
- Resident-Centered Care-Based Medication Pass Times
- Residents at Nutritional Risk
- Resident's Rights-Federal
- Resident's Rights-State of Ohio
- Responding to Call Lights
- Restorative Nursing
- Restraints
- Risk Agreements
- Risk Management and Critical Incident Plan
- RSV Vaccine Policy
- RxNOW Machine
- Scabies Exposure Control Plan
- Self-Administration of Medications
- Sex Offender Policy
- Skin - Wound Vac
- Skin Integrity and Prevention Protocol
- Skin Observation Bath Form Policy
- Skin-Clean Dressing Change
- Skin-Wound Care Protocol
- Smoking Policy - Not Permitted
- Smoking Policy – Permitted
- SNF Consolidated Billing
- Standard (Universal) Precautions
- Student Nurses and Nursing Assistants Clinical Protocols (Pandemic)
- Suicide Prevention and Management
- Thickened Liquids
- Transfer Agreements
- Trauma Informed Care
- Visitation
Community Advocates
- Butler Co RR Advocates
- Clinton Co RR Advocates
- Delaware Co RR Advocates
- Franklin Co RR Advocates
- Hamilton Co RR Advocates
- Lake Co RR Advocates
- Lucas Co RR Advocates
- Mahoning Co RR Advocates
- Ottawa Co RR Advocates
- Shelby Co RR Advocates
- Summit Co RR Advocates
- Trumbull Co RR Advocates
- Warren Co RR Advocates
Emergency
Esther's Law (Electronic Monitoring)
- Electronic Monitoring Forms
- Electronic Monitoring Letter (Family)
- Electronic Monitoring Letter (Staff)
- Electronic Monitoring Policy
- Recording in Progress Sign
Infection – Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Policy
- County Positivity Rate Protocol
- COVID-19 Screening Tool for Visitors
- COVID-19 Timeline
- COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
- Infection Control-COVID-19 Return to Work
- Infection Control-Respirator Protection
- Infection-Contact Tracing-COVID-19
- Infection-Visitation During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Staff Testing-Coronavirus
MatrixCare
- Policies & Procedures
- Clinical Systems Downtime Process
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - Employee Removal
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - Events - General Use
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - General Policy
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - Medical Records
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - Observations
- Electronic Clinical Documentation - Orders
- Electronic Medical Record - Assigning a Physician
- Electronic Signature for Medical Records
- MatrixCare eMAR Offline Report
- MatrixCare Positive Identification Audit Process
- Secondary Auth_ePrescribing
- MatrixCare Positive ID Designated Security Administrator_Clinical Analyst
- MatrixCare Positive ID Designated Security Administrator_HR – Rebranded
- MatrixCare Positive ID Prescriber Cell Phone Policy
- MatrixCare Positive ID Receiving and Entering Orders Policy
- MatrixCare Positive ID Secondary Authentication Policy
- Training Manual Sections
- Accessing & Navigating - Ancillary, Nursing & Therapy
- Accessing & Navigating – Physician
- Admitting-Discharging Residents and Swapping-Moving Beds
- Downtime
- Electronic Signature of Orders – Physician
- Emergency Removal of Employee Access to Matrix
- Events - Ancillary, Therapy & Physicians
- Events – Nursing
- Face Sheet & Census
- Medical Records Specific Instructions
- Observations (Assessments)
- Orders - Nursing & Ancillary
- Orders – Physician
- Physician Medicare Certification
- Progress Notes – All
- RAI - Ancillary, Nursing & Therapy
- Reports - Ancillary, Physician & Therapy
- Reports – Nursing
- Resident Documents
- Uploading Resident Photos
- Vitals - Ancillary, Nursing & Therapy
- Vitals – Physician
- Vitals History and Reports
- Training Material
Surveyor Guides and Forms
- 802 Form and Instructions-Oct 2023
- Appendix PP State Operations Manual
- Editing and Finalizing Statements of Deficient Practice
- Entrance Conference Form-Oct 2023
- List-of-Revised-FTags
- LTC-Survey_Process-Procedure-Guide 10-23-2023
- Offsite Prep Worksheet
- Principles of Documentation
- Psychosocial Severity Guide
- Scope_Severity Grid
- LTC Survey Pathways
- Abuse
- Accidents
- Activities
- Activities of Daily Living
- Arbitration
- Behavioral – Emotional
- Beneficiary Notice
- Bladder and Bowel Incontinence
- Comm-Sensory
- Death
- Dementia Care
- Dental
- Dialysis
- Dining
- Discharge
- Environment
- Extended Survey
- General
- Hospice and End of Life
- Hospitalization
- Hydration
- Infection Prevention Control and Immunization
- Kitchen
- Med Admin
- Medication Storage
- Neglect
- Nutrition
- Pain Mgt
- PASARR
- Personal Funds
- Physical Restraints
- Positioning, Mobility, ROM
- Pressure Ulcer
- QAA and QAPI
- Rehab and Restorative
- Resident Assessment
- Resident Council
- Respiratory Care
- Sufficient and Competent Staff
- Tube Feeding
- Unnecessary Medications
- Urinary Catheter or UTI