How to improve staff understanding of the ACFI to get the most out of potential funding… and keep it at validation
Prepared by: Michael Peachey
Presented by: Wellness & Lifestyles Australia
Do you find that the way some staff are documenting is affecting your funding, or that they’re not always performing the interventions required? Especially when it comes to understanding the business rules, we commonly hear that carers:
- Can’t find the time
- They’re doing it but not documenting the interventions, or
- They just aren’t doing it as they don’t feel confident in providing these interventions
By keeping track of our sites’ validation results, we’ve determined that many sites do not have a good understanding of the ACFI business rules. This is a big concern, especially when a downgrade of only one category can result in a loss of up to $13,000 per year!
That is why Wellness & Lifestyles have created the Aged Care Funding Instrument Overview, which helps to solve these issues and problems.
What this training can do for you?
- Get all levels of staff on board to help maximize ACFI funding
- Improve your staff’s understanding of documentation requirements to maintain funding at validation
- Ensure that your staff know how to correctly provide the interventions to improve compliance and clinical outcomes
- Gain a better understanding of the ACFI business rules – learn a proactive approach to maximize funding whilst minimizing documentation
Included in this training is…
- How funding is determined
- What are the ACFI Domains
- The ACFI Cognitive Skills & Behaviours Domain
- The ACFI Complex Health Care Domain
- Proactively using ACFI Business Rules
Who should use this training?
You and your staff should go through this training if you have residents at your facility that you think are not maximised, you’ve ever been downgraded in any domain, or you’re just concerned that you might not be getting the funding for services you’re already providing to your residents.
Some of the sites we’ve provided training to rarely were resubmitting residents because they just weren’t confident… even though they were actually requiring much higher care than they were getting funding for. Now nearly every resident is resubmitted in a timely manner. This lead to an increase in funding of huge proportions!
We’ve realized that not all staff at facilities need (or want) the same level of training regarding the ACFI and it’s components; the needs of care staff and clinical staff responsible for submitting the appraisals are quite different.
It’s important for all levels of staff to have an understanding of the basics and how to do the interventions too, because we’ve found that the RN’s and CN’s providing mentoring and guidance to the care staff helps with job satisfaction and compliance.
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