MDS 3.0/RAC-CT Certification Course 

WEATHER UPDATE: The Austin area is under a weather advisory beginning Monday night at 8:00 pm and continuing through 12:00 pm on Tuesday. At this point, the seminar WILL continue as scheduled. We encourage all attendees travelling to Austin on Monday to arrive as soon as possible to avoid travelling in bad weather. Check-in at the Hyatt Place and most other hotels nearby is 3:00 pm. Please monitor your email for any further communications.

About the Course

AANAC’s Resident Assessment Coordinator – Certied (RAC-CT®) certication is the distinguishing characteristic of an expert in resident assessment. AANAC’s RAC-CT program has long set the national standard for skilled nursing facility PPS and MDS education. More and more employers are requesting RAC-CT certied applicants in their job postings as it has become the mark of a professional who is committed to their career and residents. Constantly reviewed and updated by a team of experts, the RAC-CT program will help you to distinguish yourself as a valuable asset to any long-term care organization. In this program, you’ll immerse yourself in clinical assessment and care planning, completion of the MDS, and the regulatory body surrounding the RAI/MDS process. 

Courses include:

MDS 3.0 Coding for OBRA & PPS

Resource Utilization Groups IV (RUG-IV) & the MDS 3.0

Introduction to Medicare Part A

Care Area Assessments & the MDS 3.0

OBRA Timing & Scheduling for the MDS 3.0

PPS Timing & Scheduling for the MDS 3.0

Care Planning & the MDS 3.0

Accurately Assessing Functional Status & the MDS 3.0

The Five-Star Quality Rating System

Quality Measures & the MDS 3.0

About the Instructor

Ron Orth, RN, NHA, CPC, RAC-CT, is a registered nurse with over 25 years experience in the healthcare field with 12 of those years in the long term care industry. Ron is on the Advisory Board of PPS Alert, MDS Alert, the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators as well as CLTC and ECPN magazines. Ron contributes frequently to long term care publications such as PPS Alert, MDS Alert and most recently ECPN Magazine. Ron's presentations on Medicare regulations, PPS, MDS and other topics of interest to the long term care industry have been featured throughout the United States and in Canada. Ron earned his nursing degree in 1985 and a Baccalaureate Degree in Health Care Administration in 1996 from Concordia University of Wisconsin. In addition to his nursing licensure, he is a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in the State of Arizona. Ron is also credentialed as an accredited Certified Professional Coder through the American Academy of Professional Coders (The Academy).

Register Now! A limited number of on-site registrations will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Payments will be accepted via check or credit card. 

This course provides a total of 22.5 CNE contact hours. LeadingAge Texas is a training partner of the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination (AANAC), an approved provider of continuing nursing education through ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center). 

Upon successful completion of the course and passage of the exam, certification is valid for 2 years.

If you have previously been RAC-CT certified and need to recertify, this course is not for you. More about recertification options is available on the AANAC website: www.aanac.org. 

CEs for a live workshop are based upon actual classroom attendance for the duration of the scheduled educational activity and are veried through sign-in sheets. If a student must leave before the activity is scheduled to end or is late arriving, he/she will not receive full CE credit. Partial credit may be awarded. Each attendee, based on sign-in sheets/attendance, will receive the CE certicate upon the completion of the education activity. Final exams are not a requirement for claiming a CE certi cate for a live workshop.