MDS Coordinator Nurse Washington

The MDS Coordinator has responsibility for ensuring timely and accurate completion of all MDS assessments.• Maintains MDS schedule within stated MDS time frames and informs Social Workers and Education Director of pending MDS assessments. • Generates and distributes monthly MDS calendar. • Creates new assessments according to MDS schedule. • Attends quarterly and annual MDS meetings as nursing department representative. • Generates annual nursing kardex goals for interdisciplinary care plan. • Generates hard copy of all MDS assessments and obtains signatures of all team members involved in completing the assessments. • Signs MDS for completeness. • Transmits electronic copy of assessments to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). • Creates signs and transmits reentry and discharge tracking forms. • Reconciles all transmission to CMS. • Keeps nursing goals up to date in interdisciplinary Kardex. • Creates and transmits any MDS assessments that need correction. • Generates documentation forms for carryover of day program goals under the • Integrated Service Plan. • The MDS Coordinator will work with team members to assure good communication of resident needs and goals. • Performs other tasks/duties as assigned.