QIES Education

Get Updates:

Click here for the resource guide.

Telligen QI Connect^TM - Improving healthcare quality for people living and working with Medicare.

Reach for the Stars - A Five-Star Quality Measure Learning Collaborative

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New DRAFT item sets

A new DRAFT version of the 2020 MDS item sets (v1.18.0) scheduled to become effective October 1, 2020 and the DRAFT version of the MDS 3.0 Item Set Change History for October 2020 (v1.18.0) was posted on CMS website. These files are located in the Downloads section at the bottom of the page. Please note that Section G has been removed from all Federal item sets. 

Quality Measure and Coding: Bowel and Bladder

Quality measure review and proper documentation for loss of bowel and bladder control assists in improving the quality of care for your residents. Click on the following links to learn more about this quality measure and coding.

Quality Measure Specifications for MDS 3.0 Measure: Percent of Low Risk Residents Who Lose Control of Their Bowel or Bladder (Long Stay) (PDF, page D.14)

Quality Measure: Percent of Low-Risk Residents Who Lose Control of Bowel or Bladder (Long Stay) (Video) 

View the Press Release on Fall Prevention Resources - Link to the Fall Prevention Resources web page

Click here for an overview of Oklahoma nursing home performance with comparative data from region and nation for select long-stay quality measures for the period ending March 31, 2017. Note: Statistical significance was determined based on the 95% confidence interval. Email QIEShelpdesk@health.ok.gov for more information.

• What’s New:  PBJ Provider User’s Guide (Updated 03/2017) 
  • Visit QTSO website for download: https://qtso.cms.gov/training-materials/payroll-based-journal-pbj
  • PBJ website
  • For questions related to software or technical requirements, please email NursingHomePBJTechIssues@cms.hhs.gov.
  • For questions related to PBJ policies, please email NHstaffing@cms.hhs.gov.
• 2016 CMS Section M Training
  
• 2016 CMS Video Series on Section GG
• MDS 3.0 ADL Documentation Guide (.pdf, 279.00 KB file)
• MDS 3.0 Resident Interview Pocket Guide (4.25 x 5.5) - Excerpts from the MDS 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument User's Manual - April 2012 - (.pdf, 370.9 KB file)
• MDS 3.0 Resident Cue Card Set (8.5 x 11) - For use with the MDS 3.0 Resident Interview Pocket Guide - April 2012  - (.pdf, 315.8 KB file)
• VIVE - Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (08/16/2010). 
  • Order a copy of the DVD (CMS Product No. 11479-CD)
  • View the video on YouTube from CMS YouTube web site. 
    • This Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE) was funded by the Picker Institute and produced by the UCLA/JH Borun Center.
• Resource links document (PDF,  835KB file) 
  • This listing of resources in this Practice Outline is being provided as a service and does not constitute or imply endorsement of these organizations or their programs. OSDH is not responsible for the content of pages found at these sites.  URL addresses were current as of November 1, 2018.

• CMS YouTube Training Videos for MDS 3.0 - From the "MDS 3.0 Training Materials" web page, videos are located towards the bottom under "Related Links Outside CMS".  MP4 video files are also provided just in case your facility is not able to access the videos via YouTube website.  

• Access to CASPER Quality Measure (QM) Reports YouTube Video, December 2015, click here.

• Access to CASPER Quality Measure (QM) Reports PowerPoint Slides in .PDF, December 2015, click here. (.pdf, 624.3 KB file)

• MDS 3.0 Corrections YouTube Video, December 2013, click here.
• MDS 3.0 Corrections PowerPoint Slides in .PDF, December 2013, click here. (.pdf, 938.0 KB file)
• MDS 3.0 Corrections Q&A PowerPoint Slides in .PDF, December 2013, click here. (.pdf, 201.0 KB file)

• Code of Federal Regulations
  • 42 CFR 483.20
  • 42 CFR 483.315

• Code of Federal Regulations for Swing Bed
  • 42 CFR 482.58

• System of Records
  • Federal Register, Vol. 72, No. 52, Monday, March 19, 2007 - ( .pdf, 72k )

• Oklahoma State Law and Unofficial Rules
  • OAC 310:675-9-5.1 - ( .pdf,  374.4k )

• MDS 3.0 Item Sets
  

• MDS 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual
  

• CASPER User's Guide
  
• MDS QM Reports - (Scroll down to the download section at the bottom of the page)

Nursing Facilities have two options available for obtaining software specific to the transmission of MDS assessment data:

1. Facilities may obtain software developed by private vendors, but need to ensure the software meets the minimum specifications established by CMS.

2. Facilities may obtain JRAVEN / RAVEN software, developed and maintained by CMS, free of charge.  JRAVEN / RAVEN Help Desk information may be found on the CMS/QTSO web page links below.

JRAVEN / RAVEN Software for Long Term Care Providers:

• https://www.qtso.com/ravendownload.html

Dialer Software (Juniper Client/Verizon):

• https://www.qtso.com/cmsnet.html

• MDS Current Resident Information Reports (all MDS 2.0 Quarter 4 data from 2002 through 2009) (MDS 3.0 Quarter 4 data from 2013 to present)

• For more information on MDS Training and Workshops, click here.
• For more information on OASIS Training and Workshops, click here.
• What's New - Home Health
  

• MDS 3.0 RAI Manual 
• CMS MDS 3.0 Website 
• CMS SNF PPS Website 
• QTSO Website

• Diane Henry, State RAI Coordinator 
• Wanda Roberts, State Automation Coordinator
• Holly Murphy, RN Consultant