Skilled Nursing: Immediate Jeopardy: Recent Themes and Plan of Removal Keys

Description: CMS recently revised surveyor guidance for assessing immediate jeopardy (IJ). This session will review the CMS changes that went into effect and their impact on your next survey, including recognizing and citing psychosocial harm for IJ concerns. CMS directs that IJ situations be resolved as quickly as possible. We’ll discuss key steps for implementing your plan of removal, as well as situations that have occurred in long term care settings, how they quickly turned into IJ situations, and the steps that were taken to abate the IJ. We will also discuss how good immediate situation management helped avoid IJ citation altogether.