Comprehensive Assessment and Reassessment

Sets out how each patient receives a patient-specific comprehensive assessment and regular reassessment: who may complete it, when (no later than 5 calendar days after the start of care; the last 5 days of every 60 days; within 48 hours of return home after a hospital admission of 24 hours or more; at discharge; and whenever the patient's condition changes significantly), what it must contain, and how findings feed the plan of care. The timing and content are federal Conditions of Participation if the Agency is Medicare-certified; the Agency applies them to every patient as its own standard, together with the Louisiana admission documentation and RN reassessment duties in LAC 48:I Chapter 91.