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Information for Nursing Home Professionals

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• Administrator Letters
  • NH 2009 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2008 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2007 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2006 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2005 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2004 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2003 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2002 "Dear Administrator" Letters
  • NH 2001 "Dear Administrator" Letters
• Applications
• Background Check
• Case Mix
  • Best Practice in Accuracy Review of Case Mix Items - October 2004
  • Medicaid Case Mix in the State of Washington
• Citation Frequency & Related Data
• CMS Medicaid Professional/Technical Information
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Communication Principles & Procedures for Survey (Word Format)
• Communication Principles & Procedures for Complaint/Incident Investigation (Word Format)
• Contact RCS (Word Format)
• Directory of Nursing Homes
• DSHS Forms
• DSHS 10-237: Notice of Transfer or Discharge
• DSHS 10-238: Request for an Administrative Hearing
• Emergency Planning Information
• Enhanced Quality Measures in NH Compare eff. 2-1-04
• Enforcement Charts
• Enforcement Principles and Procedures
• FDA Recalls
  • Clarcon Skin Products
  • Information about FDA food, drug and other product recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html
    
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• Flu Information
  • Find H1N1 (Swine Flu) Vaccine in Your Community
  • 2009 Flu & Pneumonia Resources
  • WA State Deptartment of Health
    • H1n1
    • Influenza
  • Centers for Disease Control
  • Federal Health & Human Service
  • Federal Guidelines for Upcoming Flu Season
• Health-Care Decision Making
  • Advance Directives & Informed Consent Fact Sheet (Word)
  • Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Fact Sheet (Word)
  • Your Legal Right to Make Decisions About Health Care & Advance Directives in Washington State (PDF)
  • POLST Form (PDF
• Insurance Information Requests (Word Format)
• Liability Notices &Resident Appeal Rights
• Licensed NH Administrator Continuing Education
• Mandated Reporters: Understanding Your Responsibilities
  • PDF Version
  • Word Version
• Minimum Data Set
• NH Rule Filings:  Chapter 388-97 WAC
  • Proposed Rule Making CR 102
  • Review Proposed Amendments
  • Small Business Economic Impact Statement (SBEIS) & Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)
• Nursing Home Charts
• Nursing Home Compare
• Nursing Home Locator
• Nursing Home Guidelines, aka "The Purple Book" (in PDF Format only)
• Official US Medicare Site
• PASRR Contractors (Word)
• Poisonous Plant Resources (Word)
• ProviderOne Project
• QAN Protocol Format – Survey Results Summary (PDF)
• QIS (Quality Indicator Survey) Project:  CMS Revised NH Survey Process
  • QIS Information Call – January 29, 2009  – More Details
  • Related letter to NH Administrators (PDF)
  • Brochure (overview)
  • Project history
  • Electronic Forms
  • Resource Manual
• Restraints
  • Restraint Management Guide
  • Alternatives to Physical Restraints
  • FDA Safety Alert:  Side Rail Entrapment Hazards
• Side Rail Safety
• Surety Bond/Assignment of Time Deposit Samples
  • Surety Bond
  • Assignment of Time Deposit
• Telephone Script & Quick Tips for the Complaint Hotline (Word Format)
• Training for New Nursing Home Administrators
• Tuberculosis (TB) Resources
  • TB in WA State
  • TB Fact Sheet:  Foreign-Born Cases
  • CDC:  Guidelines for Using the QuantiFERON® TB Gold Tes
• Washington Administrative Code for Nursing Homes