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Improve nursing care and efficiency with
Polaris Group Consulting Services. With high turnover, recruitment problems, PPS, and compliance — the demands on your nursing staff go beyond resident care. Today, nurses need more than just clinical experience: they need operational, managerial, regulatory, and financial expertise, too. Polaris Group Consultants can work with your facility's nursing staff to ensure accurate revenue while improving resident outcomes and state survey results. We can help you streamline your systems; assess and train staff; and develop methods to improve performance and teamwork.
The Polaris Group's resident-centered management services offer a comprehensive combination of nursing, operational, regulatory, and financial expertise geared toward the delivery of resident services — and designed to meet the demands of PPS, Medicare, managed care, and compliance with OBRA. Our goals are to improve your systems and resource utilization, producing an increase in profitability as well as improvements in resident outcomes and survey results.
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Polaris Group Nursing Consulting Services can help you achieve:
- Optimal PPS reimbursement through MDS case management
- Successful surveys
- Quality RAPs and care plans by care team
- Efficient delivery, communication, and documentation systems
- Effective CQI and risk management programs
- Improved resident outcomes
- Effective nursing leadership and performance outcomes management
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Nursing/Operational Services include:
- New DON training and support
- New MDS nurse training and support
- Clinical program implementation for survey compliance
- Fall management
- Side rail and restraint reduction
- Weight and hydration program
- Behavior / psychotropic drug / pain management
- Pressure Ulcer Management
- Bowel and Bladder Management
- MDS accuracy and Medicare compliance
- Case management training and implementation
- Skilled nursing documentation training
- CQI program implementation and QI investigations
- Incident Reports
- Restorative nursing program and Part B utilization
- Staff retention and nursing leadership programs
- Supervisory skill training for charge nurses
- Performance expectations development and team building
- Organizational structure and roles and staffing analysis
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Systems and Resources
- Mock Survey. Complete all Survey tasks. Provide proven
solutions and a comprehensive report by F-tag. Identify and correct
problems before surveyors arrive.
- PPS Case Management. Accuracy audits for RUGs and QIs.
Pre-admission and daily case management. Patient cost tracking and management.
Skilled nursing and therapy documentation training; decrease denial risk.
- RAPs/Care Plan. Quality RAPs with effective care planning
and acute episode documentation.
- Nursing Systems and Staff Analysis. Analyze organizational
structure, staffing patterns, staff roles.
- CQI Program/CMS QM/QIs. QM/QI investigation and improvement.
Provide program and training to implement CQI, benchmarking, incident and risk
management.
- Nurse Management Training. Orientation and training for
DONs, ADONs, and MDS nurses.
- Staff Performance Management. Team development and supervisory
skill training. for charge nurses. Improve accountability and decrease turnover.
- Clinical Programs. Fall management, restraint/side rail
reduction, weight/hydration, bowel/bladder, and more.
- Professional Liability Risk Assessment. Onsite Risk Assessment
targets areas to decrease risk for professional liability claims.
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