Today, May 16, skilled nursing center members that are LTC Trend Tracker users will be emailed their LTC Trend Tracker
Quarter 2 Top-Line Publication.
This valuable LTC Trend Tracker resource is a brief data report on your center and outlines your facility's Five-Star performance and ways to improve it. In addition, the Top-Line publication shows your center's progress on the 2018-2021 AHCA/NCAL Quality Initiative.
In February, survey scores became based on two cycles instead of
three as part of the survey score freeze. On April 25, staffing ratings became
based on quarterly Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) data instead of staffing data
collected on CMS Form-671 during a standard survey. New risk-adjustments and
cut points for determining star ratings were implemented as part of the
transition.
To help skilled nursing center members understand how these changes impact their Five-Star rating, we've included in this this edition of the Top-Line publication PBJ data and an explanation as to how your center's two cycle survey score is calculated.
Users can leverage this report to
explain to residents, families, and referral partners such as hospitals
why their Five-Star rating has changed.
As a reminder, please remember
to add the email address from which the publication will be sent from, join.support@ltctrendtracker.com,
to your Safe Sender list to prevent any issues receiving the email.
If you do not receive the Top-Line in your email inbox, please take the following steps to view the report:
- Search your clutter or spam folder for the email.
- Log in to your LTC Trend Tracker account, click on "Manage Publications", and then "View and Download Publications". You may then select the publication you wish to view.
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