Immediate Jeopardy – Recent Changes and Plan of Removal Keys for Skilled Nursing Facilities

CMS recently revised surveyor guidance for assessing Immediate Jeopardy. Session will review the CMS changes that went into effect and their impact your next survey, including recognizing and citing psychosocial harm for IJ concerns. CMS directs that IJ situations be resolved as quickly as possible. Key steps to implement your Plan of Removal will be discussed. During the course, we will discuss real time situations which have occurred in long term care settings. Discussion will include how these situations quickly turned into an IJ situation, and the steps that were taken to abate the IJ. We will also discuss how good immediate situation management helped avoid a IJ citation all together.