MDS Coordinator

Pinnacle Health & Rehab at N. Berwick is a 64-bed Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation, and Long-term care facility in search of an experienced MDS Coordinator. Must be fluent in scheduling and coding and overall extremely organized.

Pinnacle supports a working environment built on teamwork and putting the resident first. Doing the right thing is at the heart of everything we do. Come join our team at Pinnacle Health & Rehab N. Berwick, we would love to have YOU!

Position Summary:

Manage the MDS functions and processes to maximize clinical outcomes for residents and ensure timely, accurate, and complete clinical and support documentation to enable the facility to be fully reimbursed by government payer sources for all services.

Qualifications:

• This position requires a current valid Maine nursing license
• At least one year of MDS experience in the long-term care setting.
• Must be able to demonstrate leadership and organizational skills, and provide a positive attitude.
• Ability to communicate effectively through both speech and writing.
• Up-to-date physical assessment skills and comprehensive knowledge of nursing principles are required.

Essential Functions:

• Member of the interdisciplinary care plan team (IDT) and Medicare team meetings
• Works with the interdisciplinary team in developing a plan of care for each resident;
• Maintain and update the plan of care for each resident
• Assist in the scheduling of participation of the resident or resident’s responsible party in the care plan meetings.
• Meets with the Therapy Director to review therapy participation and assessment schedule for skilled residents;
• Inform all IDT members of any significant change in the resident’s condition that will necessitate a full resident assessment;
• Notifies and coordinates the IDT for MDS assessments completion according to the admission date, assessment reference date, and MDS transmission date.
• Performs MDS nursing assessment and or ensures nursing staff performs MDS nursing assessment according to the required time frame.
• In the absence of an interdisciplinary team member, the MDS Coordinator is responsible for the completion of the additional section(s) of the MDS.
• Monitors compliance by the IDT members in the completion of the MDS and care planning process. Reports ongoing performance-related issues to the Administrator as appropriate;
• Coordinates and leads the weekly Utilization Review/Medicare Meeting;
• Completes the skilled billing log and submits to the assigned billing specialist;
• Conducts stand up meetings with IDT, including rehab to monitor the MDS process progress;
• Knowledgeable with RUGS and PDPM.