Consulting Capabilities & Services

Ecumen provides a wide range of nursing clinical consulting services to help long-term care providers enhance quality, customer and employee satisfaction and operational and financial performance. Ecumen’s nursing consulting services include:

Nursing Home Regulatory and Survey Compliance

Ecumen helps long-term care providers improve nursing home regulatory and survey compliance and stay compliant. This includes mock surveys, training in charting and documentation, chart review, quality indicator analysis, and training for employees on their roles in managing the survey process.

Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement Audits and Optimization

Ecumen has helped many clients who were losing precious resources because they were not maximizing their Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement opportunities. Ecumen helps you reverse that trend by analyzing case mix, MDS, PPS, QI/QM and other key areas.

Operational Analysis

Ecumen provides a focused clinical and/or operational systems analysis based on data that is most important to your operations, including customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, staffing size, survey performances, quality measure/indicators, and case mix.

Interim Administrators and Management

Ecumen helps providers find the right fit for a host of key positions, such as administrator, director of nursing/clinical director, MDS coordinator, nutritional management, and social services.

Director of Nursing Training

Ecumen’s customized director of nursing training helps new and seasoned DON’s alike embrace the role, and the responsibilities, challenges and opportunities that come with it.

Marketing Analysis

Ecumen helps long-term care providers develop solutions to seize and maximize revenue opportunities while at the same time making a better site for customers and employees.

Employee and Resident Satisfaction

Ecumen-managed communities participate in Ecumen’s employee and customer satisfaction research to gauge performance in these key performance areas.

Mock Surveys

Ecumen’s mock surveys identify high risk areas in terms of scope and severity and leads to recommendations to help providers improve on their survey performance.

Policy and Procedures

Ecumen helps providers develop and revise policies and procedures and then determine the best ways for training staff on them.

MDS Training (Minimum Data Set)

Ecumen MDS training supports new clinical staff and helps seasoned clinical professionals complete the MDS more efficiently and accurately to improve performance and capture reimbursements.

QIS (Quality Indicator Survey) Training

Ecumen helps nursing homes utilize the QIS tools, protocols, and concepts in their ongoing quality assurance efforts. Ecumen also helps nursing homes develop in-house QIS specialists.

Pressure Ulcer Prevention Training

Ecumen’s pressure ulcer prevention training helps nursing professionals identify risk factors and techniques for prevention and treatment.

Dietary and Nutritional Consulting

Ecumen works with you on enhancing the dining experience, quality and nutrition, cost effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and training and staffing.