Residential Care Assessments: MDS-RCA

Hi-Tech Software Solutions has developed Residential Care Assessment Minimum Data Set instruments for client facilities in states that require them. For example, the State of Maine requires the MDS-RCA, which is similar to the MDS 3.0 required in skilled care environments.

RCA Processing records, prints and electronically submits the required assessements to your state.

A Residential Care Assessment module can feature the following:

• Scheduling programs tell you whose assessments are due.
• Information recorded in a resident’s Face Sheet is copied into an Admission assessment.
• Medications are copied from Orders into the Medications section.
• The System checks for errors before printing the RCA form.
• The System prints all required forms, for example:
  • Admission
  • Semi-annual
  • Annual
  • Significant Change
  • Other
  • Discharge Forms
• The System assures that the printed Chart Copy matches the electronic copy to be submitted.
• In Maine, Data Conflict Checking identifies responses that seem to conflict, even though not errors.
• The System submits error-free records to the State.
• The System reads completed assessments to provide the following:
  • One-page Service Plan that summarizes the resident’s needs
  • Case Mix Grouper scores
  • Quality Indicators based on the state’s criteria