AN ACC
Class 8 progress note
An example of progress notes for a class 8 resident.
Latest
December lets chat - postponed (again)
Funding
Changes to funding?
Changes on the horizon to funding and care minutes!
HELF
I'll get by With a little HELF from my friends...
Don't forget, you MUST start to implement HELF as soon as you can to offset the declining income through government funding.
AN ACC
Prioritising evidence in AN ACC
prioritising documentation
Funding
What happens after RADs?
Our wonderful colleagues have kindly permitted their discussion paper on Capital Funding for aged care to be published on this website. It certainly makes some valid points for the future of aged care in Australia. Definitely worth the read.
AN ACC
Activities of Daily Living
The two approaches in documenting for activities of daily living depend if the AN ACC class will be in the assisted mobility branch OR the not mobile branch.
AN ACC
Frailty - it is important!
Frailty has an underlying strength in contributing to higher AN ACC classes. It is critically important progress notes discuss the increasing frailty of the resident being discussed. Some examples of frailty notes might look like this:
AN ACC
Behaviour documentation
In my webinar I discuss the cognitive measurements applied in an AN ACC assessment. A progress note example might look similar to this:
Funding and Care Minute optimisation
Thanks to my colleague Steven Hughes from Financial Shepherd for calculating the funding profit margin for us again! Steven is available to support your organisation in determining the matrix for profitability.
Thursday lunch chat
I am hosting an informal lunchtime catch up for my contacts tomorrow Thursday 6 November. Lets take 10 to check in on each other and how we are going with the new Act and Standards, and help each other problem solve issues! 11. “There is immense power when a group
AN ACC EVIDENCE - sources changed
Disappointingly the key principle to AN ACC where evidence was to be kept separate from clinical documentation has now changed. After many of us struggled to achieve the correct AN ACC class for our residents based on the principles of AN ACC, I addressed this issue with our Department of