Long-Term Care Compliance Toolkit

Your partner in building an effective compliance program

It’s just good business sense to have an effective compliance program—but if that’s not enough motivation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires skilled nursing facilities (SNF) to have one in place by 2013. Available in print and electronically, The Long–Term Care Compliance Toolkit will help you develop a compliance program if you do not already have one or strengthen a program your SNF has outgrown.

You will discover practical, efficient ways to train and educate staff, perform internal auditing and monitoring checks, develop self–correcting actions, and stay on top of the constantly changing regulatory environment in long–term care. This comprehensive book will help you withstand the QIS process and Medicare audits, and improve your overall operation’s efficiency and productivity.

The Long–Term Care Compliance Toolkit will help you:

• Save time developing MDS 3.0 and RUG–IV compliance policies and procedures by using the downloadable samples, which you can customize and implement immediately at your facility


• Create a training program that ensures veteran and new staff alike are being educated appropriately to maintain compliance


• Develop a process to identify and address high target areas that may raise red flags for an auditor


• Avoid deficiencies by learning how to perform corrective actions to address potential risk areas identified during an internal audit


• Establish clear interdisciplinary lines of communication and develop a plan to enforce accountability