May 16, 2011
In most cases pressure ulcer prevention can be accomplished by risk assessment followed by common sense choices for pressure reduction. In these days of evidence based medicine, health care providers need to listen to the evidence and implement best practices to...
May 15, 2011
In the summer of 2010 I helped the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduce the new MDS section for skin condition. I gave a two hour talk in Las Vegas which was videotaped and posted on YouTube by CMS. This video goes over pressure ulcer...
Apr 21, 2011
Recently on hospital teaching rounds a medical resident presented an elderly man who fell. The patient suffered no fall-related injuries but was diagnosed with pneumonia and congestive heart failure. The resident called the event a “mechanical fall,” and the interns...
Apr 16, 2011
This article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), volume 12, #3, pages 179-183, March 2011. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the new Resident Assessment Instrument version 3.0, which went into...
Mar 14, 2011
This is the video of the pressure ulcer assessment and coding training session for MDS 3.0 Section M: Skin Condition that I delivered in Las Vegas on August 10, 2010. It was posted online by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on January 20, 2011. ...
