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<description><![CDATA[<strong style="color: #000000; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="color: #3b3838; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; letter-spacing: normal;"><strong><span>Does your community store medication in SNF patient rooms, as opposed to using a Medication Cart? If so, how is it going, what type of storage are you using? Have you had any issues with that type of storage while going through your Medicare survey?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br />
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<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While this is something we are hoping to do eventually, we are not now set up to store resident meds in health center rooms.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I have always used rolling med carts in both CCRC’s that I’ve worked in.  All surveys with carts have been positive.<br />When we open our new center in 2020, the design will be med storage units in the resident rooms, so I may need to see how others work with that feature when my time comes?]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:18:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We do not store medication in  resident rooms.  All our medication is dispensed from a locked medication cart.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:18:59 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We still use medication carts, and do not participate with Medicare.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:19:11 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We do not store medications in resident rooms in skilled care.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:19:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We do not store meds in rooms.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:19:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Our community stores medication in the med cart only at this time.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:20:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When we were in the planning stages of our Household Model renovation we considered putting medication boxes in the residents rooms.  We did and still do use medication carts.  We visited a community who used medication boxes and we learned a few things that eventually helped us make our decision to stay with medication carts.  Med Carts may be more convenient for nurses but if you have an active resident community then the residents will not be in their rooms which defeats the purpose of medication boxes being located in resident rooms.  Medication boxes also add a difficult layer of complexity to the medication count at the end of each shift.  The count will have to take place in the resident rooms and if you have 8 hour shifts, two of the medication counts will be an inconvenient times for the residents (either late at night or early in the morning).  This also conflicts with our desire to honor resident choice and privacy. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:20:42 GMT</pubDate>
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