{
  "@type": "dcat:Dataset",
  "accessLevel": "non-public",
  "bureauCode": [
    "029:15"
  ],
  "contactPoint": {
    "@type": "vcard:Contact",
    "fn": "VHA Open Data",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:vhaopendata@va.gov"
  },
  "description": "<p>The Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS) is a comprehensive assessment and care planning process used by the nursing home industry since 1990 as a requirement for nursing home participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The RAI/MDS provides data for monitoring changes in resident status that are consistent and reliable over time. The VA commitment to quality propelled the implementation of the RAI/MDS in its nursing homes now known as VA Community Living Centers (CLC). In addition to providing consistent clinical information, the RAI/MDS can be used as a measure of both quality and resource utilization, thereby serving as a benchmark for quality and cost data within the VA as well as with community based nursing facilities. Workload based on RAI/MDS can be calculated electronically by the interactions of the elements of the MDS data and grouped into 53 categories referred to as Resource Utilization Groups (RUG-IV). Residents are assessed quarterly. The data is grouped for analysis at the Austin Information Technology Center (AITC). Conversion to electronic data entry and transmission to the AITC was completed system-wide by year-end 2000. In 2010, the Centeres for Medicare and Medicaide Services released a significantly upgraded version, MDS 3.0, to begin to be implemented on October 1, 2011 in VHA CLCs.  Training is underway currently.  The MDS 3.0 will generate a new set of Quality Indicators and Quality Monitors as well the RUGs will increase to 64 RUGs from the current 53 RUG groups.</p>",
  "identifier": "VA-VHA-GER-003",
  "issued": "2019-09-12",
  "keyword": [
    "assessment",
    "benchmark",
    "center",
    "community",
    "home",
    "indicator",
    "instrument",
    "living",
    "mds",
    "minmum",
    "nursing",
    "patient",
    "quality",
    "resident",
    "rug",
    "va",
    "veteran"
  ],
  "landingPage": "https://www.data.va.gov/d/bk5m-88q6",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "modified": "2026-08-11",
  "programCode": [
    "029:054"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "Department of Veterans Affairs"
  },
  "rights": "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.",
  "systemOfRecords": "https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf",
  "temporal": "2001-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z",
  "title": "Resident Assessment Instrument/Minimum Data Set (RAI/MDS)"
}