Then there's the follow-up paperwork, like assessment reports for donors like the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Regardless of whether or not the long-term case managers were located in-house, it was common for linkage staff to demonstrate how the program benefited case managers, especially emphasizing the preparatory work done by linkage staff (e.g., completing eligibility assessments, intake paperwork) prior to the client's first meeting with the case manager.
Completing both the mandated MDS [ 15] and the Braden Scale presented LTC home staff with considerable assessment and paperwork burden, often perceived as duplicated effort.
As was mentioned earlier, linkage coordinators frequently completed intake assessments or eligibility paperwork, which reduced the overall workload for long-term case managers when clients were transitioned to them.
This statistically non-significant shift in risk assessment might be explained by inaccurate recording of paperwork or poor filing of risk assessment documentation.
Nurses in this study guarded against this by 'cloaking' the assessment in the baby check and downplaying the assessment as 'doing some paperwork'.
But, as Cecilia Marchetti, a veteran psychologist at Lehman High (far behind in assessments this year) points out, the paperwork problem is also a human problem.
Supervisors have to deal with an onslaught of paperwork and meetings, but employees who only get assessments once or twice a year can often feel as if they are working in a vacuum.
Increased paperwork load for bureaucratic processes associated with physician assessments that are required for financial disability support and other forms of social assistance was also a barrier.
Previously, to appeal a tax assessment, property owners had to submit paperwork in person downtown, at the county's satellite offices in the suburbs or at outreach sessions where county officials help prepare appeals cases.
