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Information for Nursing Home Professionals

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• 2008 Regional Provider Forums (Word Format)
• 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
  • Account Number
  • Background Authorization Form
  • Contact BCCU
  • Criminal History Regulations
  • Disqualifying Crimes List
  • DSHS Guidebook
• 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
  • Information about FDA food, drug and other product recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html
    
  • To receive e-mail updates of FDA recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts, visit https://service.govdelivery.com/service/subscribe.html?code=USFDA_4
• 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)
• Minimum Data Set
  • MDS IT Newsletters
  • 2008 Training Sessions
  • CMS Training Modules
  • MDS Automation
  • MDS Clinical
• New NH Administrator Training
• NH Surveys - Provider Satisfaction Results
  • Survey Overview
  • Survey Responses
• 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)
• 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
• Washington Administrative Code for Nursing Homes