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Updated: July 18th, 2024
Published: July 12th, 2024
Updated: July 18th, 2024
Published: July 12th, 2024
As a leader in healthcare, ensuring regulatory compliance for your skilled nursing facility is paramount. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through mock surveys. These proactive assessments not only prepare your team for official inspections but also foster a culture of continuous improvement. To excel with mock surveys, you need a system that integrates your team, encourages discussions on addressing known issues, tracks progress, and nurtures community-wide growth.
You might be wondering how your current mock survey process measures up.
- Do you have a structured approach in place?
- Do you know what it looks like?
If not, you're not alone. Many facilities have turned to HealthStream’s Quality Manager (formerly known as abaqis®), which uses the same algorithm as state surveyors. This tool shows you how many residents will be interviewed and helps determine the resident sample, effectively giving you a "study guide" for your compliance "test."
A customer spotlight for Presbyterian Senior Living highlights their successful utilization of Quality Manager to uncover issues for remediation prior to the actual assessment, resulting in deficiency-free surveys at three different facilities in the first year. With these successes, their level of commitment to completion of mock surveys has increased substantially and overall satisfaction is high.
This method is well-loved by many administrators because it genuinely prepares them for state surveys. It also simplifies the preparation process and is tailored to meet particular needs. By investing in a reliable mock survey system, you can ensure your facility not only meets regulatory standards but excels in providing quality care.
Having a dependable system like HealthStream’s Quality Manager allows you and your team to prepare for survey before it occurs, getting you one step closer to maintaining compliance and peace of mind for the quality of care your team provides to your residents and community.