Specialist ACFI Nurses Service Announced By W&Ls Nick Heywood-SmithNick Heywood-Smith, CEO of Wellness & Lifestyles, has just announced a new service to help aged care facilities meet the ACFI assessment requirements - Specialist ACFI Nurses.
By: Wellness & Lifestyles This new service recognises that aged care staff, focused on the day to day care of their residents, can be too time-challenged to grasp the changes to the ACFI, and to regularly conduct the necessary resident assessments. “The ACFI is a very complicated tool and, with the new changes just introduced, many facilities stand to lose government funding while continuing to provide the same level of care” said Mr Heywood-Smith. “Our Specialist ACFI nurses will assist our aged-care facility clients to understand these changes, and help them to correctly claim the correct entitlement for each resident.” “We have found that on some sites, the staff are so busy with their clinical caseload that they just cannot find the time to conduct resident reappraisals” He explained that in light of the changes to ACFI, W&L has developed a system to help facilities through the re-appraisal process, so they can access the maximum funding to which they are entitled. The introduction of Specialist Nurses into the process (http://www.wlconsultancy.com.au/ “Our assessment process has shown that residents of aged care facilities rarely receive the interventions that are clinically indicated and to which they are entitled” explained Mr Heywood-Smith. “Either this, or they are receiving the interventions, but the facility is not claiming the correct government funding for those interventions.” W&L offers an on-site, obligation-free initial meeting with key clinical staff, to review basic information in order to quickly determine whether implementing the process is feasible for that particular facility. Details of the W&Ls Specialist RN services for ACFI assessment are available at http://www.wlconsultancy.com.au/ About Nick Heywood-Smith Nick Heywood-Smith is a registered physiotherapist and CEO of Wellness & Lifestyles Australia (W&L) group of companies. W&L is a business that he developed with his wife Nikki which specialises in aged care, and provides mobile allied health and education services to clients and facilities across South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory. Nick has been a registered physiotherapist since January 1999. Since completing his degree he has worked in a variety of health care settings in five different countries around the world. He was recently awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in the Central region. About Wellness & Lifestyles (W&L) Wellness & Lifestyles Australia (W&L) was established by Nick Heywood-Smith in 2003. It is a market leader in the provision of mobile allied health services in Australia. W&Ls core business is aged-care focused allied health services. W&L has grown from a home office to a company with the full scope of allied health services including physiotherapy, podiatry, speech pathology, occupational therapy, dietetics, exercise physiology, psychology, diabetes educators, massage, natural therapies, educational training and specialist RNs to facilitate ACFI assessments, Australia-wide. The company services to over 250 facilities and over 13,000 aged care beds. Its current clients consist of aged care facilities, the intellectually and physically disabled, community health services, day therapy centres, home care package providers, public and regional hospitals and private clients in their homes. Their vision to become the benchmark for aged care allied health care services in Australia, supplying ‘best in class’ services that surpass needs. W&L provides a ‘one stop shop’ for allied health services for their clients and focus on providing a ‘work-life’ To join the W&L team of allied health professional’ Photos: https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ https://www.prlog.org/ End
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