Tammy Cassidy is a Registered nurse with over 28 years of experience in long term care, specializing in MDS and clinical quality.  She is also a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator and former CMS DAVE2 surveyor.  Tammy understands not only the clinical quality aspect of long-term care, but is also a valuable regulatory, risk management, and financial asset for your organization.   She is frequent speaker offering education for many organizations including the Ohio Health Care Association, Leading Age, The Academy of Senior Health Sciences, and the American College of Health Care Administrators on topics related to clinical quality, risk management, and reimbursement.  She is the proud recipient of the 2017 ACHCA Educator of the Year award. She is a master teacher with the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nurses (AAPACN) for the Resident Assessment Coordinator certification course.

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DAVE2, or the Data Assessment and Verification program, was a national initiative of CMS with a primary focus to assure accuracy and reliability of Minimum Data Set (MDS) data, as this data drives the Medicare Part A payment, publicly reported quality measures, and in some states, Medicaid case mix payment systems. 

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