Skilled Nursing Facilities

Completing Census Budgeting

You can access the CENSUS BUDGETING area and define capacity and budget settings to be used on the Status Summary & Occupancy reports.

After you complete the creation of your "Rooms List" the individual (physical) details can identify the actual breakdown of the various types of rooms/beds. e.g of 100 Beds, if 50 are Private, 35 are Semi & 15 are Ward, then this information can be defined on the Census Budgeting screen. However, the Rate Type Categories (Private, Semi & Ward in this example) must be defined first, to be selected here. They are associated elsewhere to the appropriate Rate Codes in use at your facility.

  1. While in the ADMIN module, depending on depending on your Security access, you may or may not see & select SETUP from the menu items. If you do not see it listed as an option, you do not have Security access to perform Set Up functions. See your Security Administrator.

  2. When you select SETUP, the set up options of the "ADMIN" module appear.

  3. Under the BILLING SETUP section, select CENSUS BUDGETING to record the breakdown of your various room/bed types.

  • A basic assumption is going to be made that if a resident is in a Private room, then they are going to be assigned one of your Private rates. If this assumption is not correct in your facility, you can select not to create detailed "Census Budgeting" information and instead use a more generic description to capture your overall "Capacity" & "Budget" info (e.g "LTC" beds).

  • You must have a security role with appropriate rights to see "Set Up" on the menu. If you don't see Set Up you don't have access to it. See your local Security Administrator. The delivered Admin Setup role provides this access.