Patent Document ID: 20090292558
Application ID: 12126033
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for generating resource allocation determinations for a nursing home facility, the system comprising: a computer operable to provide a base assessment model modeled after a Quality Indicator Survey, wherein the Quality Indicator Survey comprises questions addressing a plurality of resident care areas, the plurality of resident care areas relating to at least one of choices, dignity, abuse, health, personal property, or quality; a network portal interface operable to provide a set of assessment questions to an assessor terminal, the set of assessment questions relating to at least a portion of the plurality of resident care areas comprised in the Quality Indicator Survey, wherein the assessor terminal is operable to: provide the set of assessment questions to an assessor; and receive responses to the set of assessment questions based on answers provided to the assessor by a set of respondents, wherein the set of respondents comprises at least one of a resident of the nursing home facility, a relative of the resident of the nursing home facility, or an employee of the nursing home facility; a response processing unit in operative communication with the network portal interface and the computer and operable to generate quality scores for each of the plurality of resident care areas based on the responses, each quality score being indicative of a likelihood of citation in each resident care area as a function of data derived from the Quality Indicator Survey; a display generation unit in operative communication with the response processing unit and operable to display each quality score graphically in relation to its resident care area as a function of the data derived from the Quality Indicator Survey, wherein displaying each quality score comprises: displaying a first data range in relation to a graphical scale, the first data range representing a range of scores in the resident care area indicative of a substantial certainty of citation in the resident care area; displaying a second data range in relation to the graphical scale, the second data range representing a range of scores in the resident care area indicative of an uncertain likelihood of citation in the resident care area; displaying a third data range in relation to the graphical scale, the third data range representing a range of scores in the resident care area indicative of a substantial certainty of no citation in the resident care area; and displaying an indicator indicating a location of the quality score in relation to the graphical scale; and an allocation determination unit, in operative communication with the response processing unit, and operable to formulate a resource allocation determination as a function of at least one of the quality scores.