{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "non-public", "bureauCode": ["029:15"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "VHA Open Data", "hasEmail": "mailto:vhaopendata@va.gov"}, "dataQuality": true, "description": "<p>The Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS) is a comprehensive assessment and care planning process used by the nursing home industry since 1990 as a requirement for nursing home participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The RAI/MDS provides data for monitoring changes in resident status that are consistent and reliable over time. The VA commitment to quality propelled the implementation of the RAI/MDS in its nursing homes now known as VA Community Living Centers (CLC). In addition to providing consistent clinical information, the RAI/MDS can be used as a measure of both quality and resource utilization, thereby serving as a benchmark for quality and cost data within the VA as well as with community based nursing facilities. Workload based on RAI/MDS can be calculated electronically by the interactions of the elements of the MDS data and grouped into 53 categories referred to as Resource Utilization Groups (RUG-IV). Residents are assessed quarterly. The data is grouped for analysis at the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC). Conversion to electronic data entry and transmission to the AITC was completed system-wide by year-end 2000. In 2010, the Centeres for Medicare and Medicaide Services released a significantly upgraded version, MDS 3.0, to begin to be implemented on October 1, 2011 in VHA CLCs.  Training is underway currently.  The MDS 3.0 will generate a new set of Quality Indicators and Quality Monitors as well the RUGs will increase to 64 RUGs from the current 53 RUG groups.</p>", "identifier": "VA-VHA-GER-003", "issued": "2017-07-26", "keyword": ["nursing", "veteran", "va", "rug", "resident", "quality", "patient", "minmum", "mds", "living", "instrument", "indicator", "home", "community", "center", "benchmark", "assessment"], "landingPage": "https://www.data.va.gov/d/bk5m-88q6", "language": ["en-US"], "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "modified": "2020-12-01", "programCode": ["029:054"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "Department of Veterans Affairs"}, "rights": "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.", "systemOfRecords": "https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf", "temporal": "2001-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z", "theme": ["Basic Statistics", "Use", "and Operational Data"], "title": "Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS)"}