Survey Preparation References
CMS 802 Form
Completed automatically with VistaKEANE Resident Assesment

MDS Survey Process Changes
An overview, July 1999

Changes to the Survey Process
July 1999

How QI Reports are used in the Survey Process
Sample Report

Performance Measures
Performance Measures offers 24 clinical outcome measures based on the MDS 2.0 Quality Indicators with JCAHO identification numbers.

Survey & Certification General Information
CMS website for overviews, hot topics, contact innformation, survey cert leters and state operations manual.

Survey Preparation Reference Materials

Revised CMS 802 Form
Obtain copies of the CMS 802 form (07-99) along with the instrustions from CMS's website.

HCFA 672 instructions
(pdf, 10-98)