For MDS Coordinators
Your MDS is only as defensible as the documentation behind it. Companion captures ADLs, behaviors, mood, and clinical changes continuously and timestamps them — so the evidence that supports your coding is already in the record when you sit down to complete the assessment.
Book a 20-minute callThe reality on the floor
Under PDPM, coding accuracy is reimbursement — and survey risk. But the supportive documentation an accurate MDS depends on is scattered across shifts, charted from memory, and frequently missing the ADL and behavior detail the assessment needs. MDS coordinators spend their week chasing evidence that should have been captured at the bedside.
What Companion does for you
The detail your MDS depends on — assistance levels, intake, mood, behaviors — is observed and logged across every shift, not reconstructed after the fact.
Every observation carries a time and a source, so the record actually supports the codes you select and holds up when a surveyor or auditor asks.
When the look-back period is backed by complete, structured documentation, 'the documentation doesn't support the MDS' stops being a recurring deficiency.
Spend your week completing accurate assessments instead of hunting down the supporting notes that were never written down.
What changes
Supportive documentation exists before you open the assessment.
Coding reflects the resident's true acuity, with evidence attached.
Survey and audit exposure drops as the record matches the MDS.
Look-back periods are backed by continuous, timestamped capture.
FAQ
No. Companion captures and structures the supportive documentation; the MDS coordinator remains the clinician completing and signing the assessment. It makes your coding defensible, it doesn't make the coding decisions.
Accurate coding backed by real documentation protects both reimbursement and compliance. When the chart supports the MDS, you reduce the risk of downcoding on audit and 'documentation doesn't support' deficiencies on survey.
CareOS routes nurse-signed structured observations into the EHR you already run, so the supportive documentation sits in the record alongside everything else — no separate system to reconcile.
Every role lives a different day. See what Companion changes for the rest of the team.
Ten Companion units. One wing. 30 days. See the outcomes for yourself.
Book a 20-minute callNo procurement committee. No capex. Install in week one.