Skilled Nursing Facilities

Adding Assessment Scoring Categories

After an assessment are created and scoring is added, you can create Assessment Scoring Categories. You can define names for the scoring ranges, e.g. Low Risk 0-5, Mod Risk 6-10, High Risk 11-15. You can also set up assessment schedules (e.g. if a resident scores as high risk then a follow up assessment is scheduled q2wks), and triggers (e.g. if a resident scores as high risk then Focus/Goals/Interventions trigger to the Care Plan and/or Alerts trigger to the Clinical Dashboard).

Some of the System assessments have scoring categories already assigned, such as Braden.

Note

If you create scoring categories based on risk, you need evidence-based documentation to back up the scores.

Note

A Category Description cannot be changed after saving, but you can click del to remove the category and add it again.

  1. Do one of the following:

    • Single facility: Clinical > Setup > Assessment Scoring Categories.

    • Multi-facility: Management Console > Standards > Care Management > Assessment Scoring Categories.

  2. Standard Assessments - select the assessment.

  3. Available Scores - select the score.

    1. Category Description - define the name of the scoring range, e.g. Care Level 1.

    2. Low – enter lowest score threshold, e.g. 0.

    3. High – enter highest score threshold, e.g. 5

    4. Sequence – enter the order you want the category to appear, e.g. 1.

  5. Repeat the above steps to create additional categories, e.g. Care Level 2 (Low: 6, High: 10, Sequence: 2) and Care Level 3 (Low: 11, High: 15, Sequence: 3).

  • The following options are available for assessment scoring categories, however they can also be set up based on a specific score, as opposed to a score range.

    Adding Scoring to An Assessment

    • Schedule - click schedule for the category to set up an assessmentschedule based on an assessment score range. Click New > enter Description, select Triggering Type of Score, enter Score Value, select Trigger Assessment, select schedule > click Save.

    • Trigger - click trigger for the category to set up a trigger based on an assessment score range. Enter a score value > click New for Care Plan Triggers or High Risk Alert Triggers > select item(s) > Save.