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Training from Cornerstone Clinical Consulting

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Cornerstone Clinical Consulting specializes in teaching WA State RUGs IV and Case mix as well as PDPM (Patient Driven Payment Model) used for Medicare PPS (prospective payment system) scoring and coding accuracy. 

Experience Counts

As a presenter, Colleen has consistently received high ratings and spoken to groups
such as:
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Training Topics:
Includes, but not limited to:
  • Skilled care documentation for nursing
  • Understanding the ADL Functional score (section GG)
  • PDPM; patient driven payment model used for Medicare
  • Understanding ADL (activity of daily living) coding 
  • Advanced MDS; RUGs IV for WA State Case Mix scores
  • Reading the RUG and PDPM cmg (case mix grouper)  score
  • Understanding PPS / OMRA coding
  • Understanding WA State Case Mix and Quality Enhancement Incentive payments
  • WA State Quality Incentive payment related Quality Measures
  • End Split credit: Restorative and depression indicators
  • Rehab therapist – understanding ADL impact to WA State Rehab scores
  • MDS for the DNS and Administrator
  • Understanding and knowing how to use the State RUG report and facility software reports

What the clients are saying: 
"Colleen was awesome and very passionate about her work! A great teacher."

"Colleen is very knowledge and offered great resources."

"Slides were informative and easy to understand."

"Colleen delivers outstanding information in an easy and understandable way."

​"Insightful presentation, goes beyond the mere recital of rules. A hands-on interactive process. I learned so much."

"Very informative and enlightening. Very professional and friendly. Very good learning."

"(Colleen) is amazing. I learn so much from (Colleen) every time we meet."

"Everyone in the Medical industry should take her class."


"Very skilled in this difficult and challenging (MDS) tool. [It is] always a pleasure to learn from our speaker, Colleen."

"Best course on MDS I’ve ever been to.""Gave me the best explanation of RUG categories I’ve ever had.""Excellent presentation. Realistic examples. "

"Fabulous in-service and highly effective teaching strategies."

"Course was very informative. I will definitely be studying my MDS manual."

"Thank you for the wake-up call on compassionate and thoughtful interviewing r/t mood assessments. I confess that keeping up with the daily ARD calendar has super ceded the real purpose and desired outcome of the process – I’m back on track."

Cornerstone Clinical Consulting | Tacoma, WA | 253-254-2572
Cornerstone Clinical Consulting assists Skilled Nursing and Long Term Care facilities with entitled Medicare and State case mix reimbursement.