This webinar will discuss the number of ways to finance specialized services in nursing facilities. Access and quality of care is impacted by the ability to finance a resident’s service needs. This presentation will examine a variety of payment alternatives available to pay for services provided to individuals with ID/DD and mental illness while residents of nursing facilities; including Medicaid, Medicare, managed care and delivery system reform initiatives. An overview of the types of payment methods and examples will be provided.

As the long-term care industry faces major challenges in regulation, finance, and staffing, the shift in demographics to a younger, more complex, transient population has added another layer of stress. Resources to develop the type of care and service needed to address issues of long-standing mental disorders, substance use, addictions, and other behavioral health needs are in short supply. This session offers a variety of ideas for anticipating and developing common sense approaches to these contemporary challenges to PASRR compliance. Improving staff education and training in behavioral health and developing strategies to address common symptoms and reactions in mental health are a focus of this conversation.

This presentation will describe multiple ways nursing facility residents can be assessed through PASRR and aims to identify practices that can improve compliance with nursing facility requirements. Practices that can increase usefulness of Level II resident review and status change activity will also be discussed.

This presentation will provide an overview of the process Washington used to develop and implement a State Plan Amendment for providing specialized services. Examples of the specialized services and their impact on those who receive them will be discussed.

This presentation will describe multiple ways nursing facility residents can be assessed through PASRR and aims to identify practices that can improve compliance with nursing facility requirements. Practices that can increase usefulness of Level II resident review and status change activity will also be discussed.

This presentation will define the prevalence of behavioral health (BH) conditions in our culture, address frequently occurring co-morbid health conditions that often obscure their detection and subsequent treatment, and introduce validated screening tools that are successfully used to detect many BH conditions across settings. Appropriate times and environments to utilize the screenings will be discussed with a particular emphasis on the potential value of integrating BH screenings into PASRR Level I evaluations.

This webinar provides an overview of the regulatory compliance process for nursing homes, notable changes related to the wide sweeping changes to the Conditions of Participation for nursing homes, and specific information on the changes to the Conditions of Participation related to PASRR components.

This webinar aims to clarify the relationship between PASRR Level II evaluations and dementia and mental illness. Current concerns about practices related to dementia and mental illness will be reviewed and the responsibilities of Level I screeners and Level II evaluators will be addressed. Areas of confusion related to dementia and mental illness will be identified and training resources will be recommended.

The PASRR Technical Assistance Center has recently reviewed the tools states use for their preliminary Level I PASRR screens, and has analyzed PASRR-related items in the Minimum Data Set (MDS). In this webinar, the Director of PTAC, Ed Kako, will review some of those findings and describe the next steps PTAC will take in the research it conducts in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and with states.