Temporary Changes Made to the CARE Assessment For Medication Documentation – Dear Assisted Living Administrator Letter

Temporary Changes Made to the CARE Assessment For Medication Documentation – Dear Assisted Living Administrator Letter

Dear Assisted Living Facility Administrator: Dear ICF/IID (licensed as ALF) Administrator:

NOTE: Only those ICF/IID facilities that are dually-licensed as assisted living facilities are affected.

On December 28, 2018, a change was made to the CARE application used by ALTSA and DDA Case Managers in how they document medications in the CARE assessment.

ALTSA is working to revert the system design back to documenting individual medications. When this process is complete, the list of medications will print on the plan of care document as they did prior to this change.

In in the interim, here is a detailed description of what you will see in CARE assessments:  MORE