The requirements for LTC Facilities are the health and safety standards LTC facilities must meet in order to participate in medicare or medicaid programs.
What is your Patient Centered Care Plan for your LTC community?
For months now when you walk into a Long Term Care (LTC) facility, you may hear people talking about the CMS Final Ruling. Asking themselves, how they are going to make these changes with more residents then ever before, and less staff then ever before.
A high percentage of residents are admitted to a long term care facility on Friday. This allows them time to get adjusted, move-in over the weekend, and have family and friends available for the first few days. The baseline Care Plan requires facilities to develop a baseline care plan for each resident, within 48 hours of their admission, which includes the instructions needed to provide effective and person-centered care that meets professional standards of quality care. That is tough when you are short staffed to begin with and now it is on a weekend when staff is even more limited.
Below are a few key points in the Final Ruling.
- Person Centered Care: This revolves around information, being involved and allowing the patient to have more choice in their care.
- Facility Assessment, Competency Based Approach: Not a one-size fits all approach. Focus on each resident achieving their highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
- Align with Current HHS Initiatives: Reducing unnecessary hospital readmissions, reducing the incidences of healthcare acquired infections, improving behavioral healthcare, and safeguarding nursing home residents from the use of unnecessary psychotropic (antipsychotic) medications.
Pharmacogenetics can help decrease, contain and/or give the facility documentation of patient centered care through personalized medicine. It can help with your baseline care plan and give you personalized data for each resident to help develop a personalized medication regime unique to each resident. Documentation on how each resident is on the right medication, at the right dosage for each individual based on their genetic make-up. And it helps in reducing unnecessary medications with scientific based evidence to back it up.
This program is quick, approximately one minute per resident, and there is no out of pocket expense for residents with medicare B and in some states, medicaid.
Pharmacogenetics aligns current and future medications with each persons unique genetic profile. Our proprietary process impacts quality, adds value and enhances the customer experience by addressing top clinical concerns such as falls, dementia, sleep, pain, med management and overall staff efficiencies.
If it isn’t currently part of your patient centered care plan, it should be. What other resource is that easy, quick to implement, and no out of pocket expense to the resident or facility. PGx Medical can be your consultant and educator in the process helping you and your clinical team implement the program.
For more information, contact: PGx Medical, info@pgxmed.com or 405-509-5112. PGx Medical is the trusted and experienced resource for the implementation of pharmacogenetics in the field of aging services.