Achieving Substantial Compliance is a professional manual comprised of nearly 600 pages of text and exhibits designed to offer guidance to long term care professional in minimizing deficiency citation in OBRAs quality-based survey process. Written by Gene R. Larrabee B.A., M.A., N.H.A., one of the industrys leading administrative experts on regulatory compliance issues, and edited by Sha Elvidge Kelley J.D., Ph.D., R.N., one of the nations leading legal experts in the field of long term care compliance, Achieving Substantial Compliance is now available for purchase. See what some facility administrators have said about Achieving Substantial Compliance:

• "Our facility was cited for deficiencies as a result of a complaint survey. We followed the manual in completing our plan of correction and request for informal dispute resolution and all our deficiencies were deleted."

   

• "I've had several questions regarding the survey process since its implementation in July, 1995. Once I purchased the big green book, I've found the answers."

   

• "We followed the manual's suggestions and experienced a deficiency-free survey. The previous year we had had a number of deficiencies including a citation at a level for substandard quality of care."

   

• "Nothing can possibly give you all the answers, but the manual sure provides a great road map to follow for achieving compliance."

   

• "We traditionally have our attorney assist us in constructing our plan of correction. Our facility purchased a manual, shared the books suggestions with our legal counsel, and our legal counsel deferred to the recommendations found in Achieving Substantial Compliance."

Achieving Substantial Compliance is designed to serve as a guide and educational tool for OBRAs quality-based survey process. If the manual has one overall purpose, it is to assist facilities in seizing control of their surveys and minimizing exposure to deficiency citation. The manual includes:

• A thorough explanation of the survey process including the various kinds of surveys which may be conducted, how surveyors prepare to survey your facility, survey ramifications, remedy imposition, and complaint actions.

   

• How to respond to surveys including suggestions regarding plan of correction construction.

   

• Why informal dispute resolution is critical and how facilities should prepare for IDR.

   

• A thorough analysis of selected F-tags (regulations) designed to provide the reader with an understanding of the various ways surveyors may interpret a specific regulation.

   

• The importance of a viable and thorough quality assurance program and the quality assurance plays in assuring regulatory compliance.

   

• How a systemically-based quality assurance program can be used by facilities to prevent deficiency citation.

   

• Interpreting selected F-tags (regulations) in ways which help a facility minimize the surveyors' ability to interpret an F-tag against facility interests.

   

• Using the OSCAR report as a key factor in the quality assurance process.

   

• Creating a system to cope with the nemesis of unwanted or aberrant resident behaviors.

   

• How to best staff your facility in response to the acuity level of your residents.

   

• A comprehensive guide to the resident assessment process including the completion of the Minimum Data Set (MDS), triggering and identifying problems for care planning, constructing the RAP narrative summary, and composing the individualized resident plan of care.

   

• AND MUCH MORE!!!

Achieving Substantial Compliance can be ordered by sending a check or money order in the amount of $379.00 (includes shipping and handling anywhere within the continental U.S.) to:

Primus Care, Inc.

504 Windamer Ct.

Valparaiso, IN  46383

Orders should include your name, facility name and facility contact person (if applicable), shipping address, purchase order number, and telephone number.

Besides the benefits long term care professionals can accrue by adding Achieving Substantial Compliance to your reference library, there is another important reason to purchase the manual. When work began on Achieving Substantial Compliance, the author retained the services of Valeri Adamson, R.N., to assist in the manuals research and composition. Valeri, who worked in the long term care industry as a Resident Assessment/MDS Coordinator, was dedicated in every way to professionalism. During the course of work on the manuals text, Valeri was tragically murdered. A single mother, she left two young sons. You should know a portion of the net proceeds of manual sales will be set aside in trust for the future of Valeri's children.