Preadmission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR) is a federal requirement to help ensure that individuals are not inappropriately placed in nursing homes for long term care. This webinar will provide an overview of the basics of PASRR. An in-depth exploration of the PASRR regulation, from the origin of the regulation through its evolution to the present, will be covered. The fundamentals of the PASRR regulation will be broken down. Promising practices, common challenges, and frequently asked questions will be addressed.

This webinar will highlight key findings from the 2017 National Report. The results present a snapshot of PASRR programs as of September 2017, with focus on our analysis of MDS data, and on our analysis of data that states collect for quality monitoring and quality improvement (QM/QI).

This presentation will provide strategies for integrating the PASRR evaluation process, cross-consultation, quality monitoring, and service delivery to support person-centered care for individuals with co-occurring disorders. Examples of state procedures will be used to illustrate various approaches in integrated PASRR systems.

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.