Build, Assign, and Complete Every Audit—Then Watch Compliance Rates Against Targets
CAREASCENDIUM gives skilled nursing facilities a complete internal audit workflow—configurable audit tools with skip logic, files, and signatures; assignment to users, roles, or committees with due dates; web and mobile completion; and KPI dashboards that show compliance rates against the targets you set.
The Challenge with Clipboard Audits
Internal audits are how facilities catch problems before surveyors do—but in most SNFs, audits live on photocopied checklists. Completed forms pile up in folders nobody reviews, results are never trended, and the same deficiencies persist month after month because no number ever told leadership things were slipping.
- Audit checklists photocopied, completed on clipboards, and filed unread
- No assignment or due dates—audits happen when someone remembers
- Results never tallied, so compliance rates and trends are invisible
- No targets, so "how are we doing?" has no honest answer
- Findings that never become corrective action plans
- Paper trails that can't demonstrate an active monitoring program during survey
“An audit program that doesn't produce a number can't tell you whether you're getting better or worse.”
One Workflow. From Audit Tool to Compliance Trend.
CAREASCENDIUM digitizes the entire audit cycle. Build audit tools as configurable forms, assign them to the right people with due dates and priorities, let staff complete them on web or mobile with drafts along the way, and track yes/no compliance rates against KPI targets on visual dashboards—with triggers that turn missed targets into action plans and improvement projects.
Build the Tool
Create audit checklists in the Form Wizard with sections, skip logic, files, and signatures
Assign
Schedule an audit per facility with category, type, priority, due date, and an assigned user, role, or committee
Complete
Staff work audits from My Audits on web or mobile, saving drafts before submitting
Measure
Track yes/no compliance rates against KPI targets on the audit dashboard
Act
Link audits to action plans, and configure KPI triggers for corrective work
Key Capabilities
Configurable Audit Tools
Build audit checklists in the Form Wizard with multi-section structure and rich question types—text, numeric, select, radio and checkbox grids, tabular grids, dates, ratings, file uploads, instructions, and signatures—shaped to your audit program, not a vendor's template.
Skip Logic & Focused Audits
Add skip logic so auditors only answer what applies, and assign a single form section when you want a focused audit instead of the full tool.
Categories, Types & Priorities
Organize audits with configurable categories and types—your clinical, environmental, dietary, and administrative structure—and prioritize each assignment as high, medium, or low.
Assignment to User, Role, or Committee
Assign each audit to a specific user, an entire role, or a committee, with a due date. Audits become owned, scheduled work instead of background intentions.
My Audits Workqueue
Assignees see their audits in New, In Progress, and Completed queues—filterable by priority, category, and type—and complete them in the platform's standard form experience, with new audits also surfacing on the main dashboard.
Draft & Complete Lifecycle
Auditors save work in progress and return to it later. Submissions record who responded and when, and submitted answers are reviewable read-only afterward.
Evidence Capture
Attach photos and files and capture signatures directly in the audit form—evidence lives with the response, not in a separate folder.
KPI Targets & Compliance Rates
Mark the questions that matter and CAREASCENDIUM computes yes/no compliance percentages per audit. Define KPI targets with comparison operators and frequencies, and see at a glance which audits meet target and which don't.
Audit Dashboard
Visualize KPI performance with configurable chart types, grouped by audit and filtered by facility—compliance trending leadership can read in seconds.
Action Plan & PIP Triggers
Link audits to corrective action plans, and configure KPI triggers that generate an action plan or performance improvement plan—with a name, due window, and assignee—when results miss target.
Mobile Audits
Complete audits from the CAREASCENDIUM mobile app—facility picker, status tabs, filters, full form entry, and submitted-answer review—so audits happen where care happens.
Built for Every Role
Compliance & quality leaders
One audit program with tools, assignments, completion status, and KPI trends
Administrators & DONs
Dashboard visibility into compliance rates against targets across audit areas
Department auditors
A clear queue of assigned audits with due dates, drafts, and mobile completion
QAPI teams
Audit results feeding KPI thresholds that trigger action plans and PIPs
Corporate / multi-site operators
Standardized audit tools and a consistent monitoring program across facilities
Part of the CAREASCENDIUM Platform
Audit Management plugs your monitoring program into the rest of your quality system:
One platform. One source of truth. Monitoring that produces numbers, not paper.
Outcomes You Can Measure
Compliance rates
Yes/no compliance percentages per audit, tracked over time
Target performance
Which KPIs meet target and which miss, with configurable thresholds
Completion discipline
New, in-progress, and completed audits with due dates and submitters
Clear ownership
Every audit assigned to a user, role, or committee
Corrective follow-up
Audits linked to action plans, with KPI trigger rules for missed targets
Program consistency
Standardized audit tools across units and facilities
Documentation You Can Stand Behind
CAREASCENDIUM supports the active monitoring program surveyors expect to see:
- A defined audit program with configurable tools, categories, and types
- Assigned, due-dated audits with named accountability
- Structured responses with comments, files, and signatures as evidence
- Compliance-rate KPIs measured against explicit targets
- Audit-linked corrective action plans closing the loop on findings
- A complete completion history—who audited what, and when
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Audit checklists are built in the Form Wizard with your sections and question types—including grids, ratings, file uploads, and signatures—plus skip logic so auditors only answer what applies.
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Ready to Retire the Clipboard?
See how CAREASCENDIUM turns internal audits into a measurable monitoring program—assigned, completed, trended against targets, and connected to corrective action.