Ask Diane: Do activity coordinators completing the MDS 3.0 need to be certified recreational therapists?
Q: Do activity coordinators completing and signing the MDS 3.0 need to be certified recreational therapists?
Diane: There isn’t a requirement that specifies that activities personnel need to be certified recreational therapists.
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Diane Brown
Diane Brown is a long-term care regulatory specialist and lead educator for HCPro's MDS 3.0 Boot Camp and Medicare Boot Camp-Long-Term Care Version. She is also a long-term care consultant with over 25 years of operational experience in healthcare. For Diane's complete bio, visit the About page.
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Diane,
Will MDS 3.0 allow billing for certain therapies for dementia residents/patients by recreation therapists.
Does the person filling out the Activities section on the MDS have to be a certified Activity director or would it have to be co-signed by a certified activity director? It seems a waste of the certified person to be doing paper work and not activities.
Jean Patterson LPN
Since the MDS is an intradisiplinary tool that drives patient care, it makes perfect sense to me that the activity director would be involved in the MDS data collection process. Each resident has their own individual needs, and an assessment of each resident’s interests and abilities is vital in planning activities that meet each resident’s special needs.
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