What is CMS 3.0?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Long-Term Care Facility Resident Assessment Instrument 3.0 User’s Manual, version 1.5, provides guidance to nursing facilities (NF) on when a significant change requires referral for a PASRR Resident Review evaluation if a mental illness, intellectual disability, or related condition is present or is suspected to be present.
What is guidance to NFs?
It is important that states understand that the guidance to NFs addresses individuals previously identified by PASRR and individuals who may not have been identified as having a PASRR condition at the time of admission. In instances where the individual was previously identified by PASRR to have mental illness, intellectual disability, ...
Is a decline considered self limiting?
Will not normally resolve itself without intervention by staff or by implementing standard disease-related clinical interventions, the decline is not considered “self- limiting”;
