SMQT Review Pre Test Exam Questions With Answers 100%

SMQT Review Pre Test Exam Questions With Answers 100% Standard Surveys - order & timing varied - surveyed at least every 15 months Procedural Steps: Processing a Complaint Against a Nursing Home Receipt to Closeout: Step #1) Collection Step #2) Control Step #3) Acknowledgment Step #4) Notice Step #5) Schedule investigation Step #6) Conduct investigation Step #7) Act on findings Step #8) Resolve & perform closeout reporting Regulation Pros 1. protects consumers and payers 2. necessary to maintain equity Regulation Cons 1. uncoordinated and inconsistent 2. lowers overall standard and stifles innovation 3. Surveys are a snapshot - not comprehensive or consistent picture of what they do day-to-day PARTIAL Extended SURVEY ALWAYS conducted after SQC is found during abbreviated standard survey or during a revisit when SQC was not previously identified - evaluates additional participation requirements (subsequent to a finding SQC) during an abbreviated standard survey - may include tasks of extended survey Abbreviated Standard SURVEY - conducted to investigate complaints or determine if certain changes caused concerns that decline in QoC is result of certain changes - Focus/LIMIT investigation to complaint (or particular concern) - Scope: limited to relevant areas of FA operation (unless survey suggests others) - Concerns that decline in QoC provided to SN RESidents as result of certain changes EXTENDED Survey INCLUDES (* Conducted when a finding of SQC during a standard survey): - review of a larger sample of RESident assessments - review of staffing & in-service training - surveyors to examine consultant contracts - review of P&Ps related to noncompliance - review of nursing services, physician services, administration, & any other requirements (reviewed at discretion of team) - A federal survey conducted within 14 days EXTENDED Survey CONDUCTED as follows: PRIOR to the exit conference (of the standard survey or revisit) OR No later than 14 days after the completion of a standard survey (if the survey team is unable to conduct the extended survey concurrently with the standard survey) PURPOSE of INFO ANALYSIS for Deficiency Determinant * To review / analyze all info collected & to determine whether or not FA has failed to meet one or more of the regulatory requirements ** determine whether to conduct EXTENDED survey? Higher Level Deficiencies (of scope and severity) risk facility being placed on FAST TRACK or decertification of the facility for (Medicare / Medicaid) funding within 60 days if satisfactory corrections are NOT corrected DEFICIENCY vs Scope & Severity Deficiency: a regulatory requirement that a survey finds is not being met