Guides
Survey-prep guides written for facilities that don’t have a full-time compliance department. Specific, cited, and built from the same F-tag and Scope-and-Severity references we use inside the Wardwell software.
The four elements every PoC must address — root cause, corrective action, monitoring, compliance date — with the specific structure state surveyors look for and the phrasings that get a revisit instead of acceptance.
Every field on the Statement of Deficiencies, what it means, and what the surveyor expects you to do about it. Scope and Severity grid, deficiency narratives, F-tag citations, and the 10-day response clock.
What triggers an IJ citation, how the removal plan works, the 23-day clock, and the documentation that lifts the J-level before payments are denied.
The 12-cell grid behind every deficiency, the difference between Level A and Level L, and how scope (isolated/pattern/widespread) gets assigned.
How CMS calculates per-day and per-instance penalties, the 35% waiver, and the three exits — Informal Dispute Resolution, formal appeal, or accepting the discount.
The 10-day clock, the evidence packet, the difference between IDR and IIDR, and the scope-and-severity disputes that historically succeed.
How a facility gets on the SFF list, what the SFF candidate list signals, and the survey cadence and corrective trajectory required to graduate.
How PBJ data drives the Care Compare staffing star, the case-mix-adjusted hours per resident day, and the submission mistakes that downgrade ratings.
Health Inspection, Staffing, and Quality Measures — what each domain measures, how stars are assigned, and the recovery path after a one-star fall.
Design and Scope, Governance and Leadership, PIPs, and Systematic Analysis — Phase 3 QAPI in plain language for a 60-bed operation.
Why F-689 is one of the most frequently cited tags, what the F-689 root-cause framework looks like, and the corrective action language that succeeds.
The Infection Prevention and Control Program requirements under F-880, the post-COVID enforcement reality, and the corrective action language that withstands a revisit.
These guides cover the same ground Wardwell automates: reading CMS-2567s, drafting PoCs, tracking staff certifications, watching for state-survey patterns. The 30-day pilot takes no card.