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Wendy Castro

OASIS Training Coordinator COQS

wendy.castro@state.co.us

cdphe_oasis_colorado@state.co.us

720-443-2486

Test your Knowledge Answers:

1) Social Determinants of Health are conditions in which people live, work, learn, and play and affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes.

2) It is not required that the agency offer to administer the flu vaccine in order to select 4 - Patient offered and declined, only that the patient was offered the vaccine by any healthcare provider, and they refused.

3) If you have a Stage 3 that is in the process of closing, it remains an observable Stage 3 unless the wound bed was covered with a dressing that could not be removed or the wound bed was obscured with slough/eschar. If the wound margins are open and have now closed to the point where the opening is a pinpoint, the pressure ulcer would remain a Stage 3 until completely re-epithelialized ate which time it would no longer be reported as a pressure ulcer on OASIS.

4) The correct response would be NA - Patient was not discharged from an inpatient facility for M1000 - Inpatient Facilities because the patient's status would have been an outpatient for this situation.

5) To be compliant the SOC/ROC assessment must be completed by the end of the assessment timeframe. If a patient's height cannot be measured during the assessment timeframe, and no agency-obtained height from a documented visit conducted within the previous 30-day window is available, enter a dash (-) to indicate "no information" for M1060a - Height. CMS does expect dash use to be a rare occurrence.

6) The item addresses the patient's ability to bathe in the shower or tub, not preference, regardless of where or how the patient currently bathes. Willingness and adherence are not the focus of the item. If assistance is needed to bathe in the shower or tub, then the level of assistance needed must be noted, and Response 2, or 3 should be selected.