Long-stay care carries risks a general clinic never sees: pressure ulcers that develop over weeks, falls in residents who walk the same corridor daily, restraint decisions, protection from abuse. The GAHAR Handbook for Convalescent/Long-term Healthcare and Medical Wellness Accreditation Standards, 2nd Edition 2025 (valid March 2025 – March 2029), reflects that reality with 21 safety requirements — any one of which, if unmet, blocks accreditation. Generic hospital templates simply don't cover this ground.
What makes the LTC standard demanding
The 21 GAHAR Safety Requirements span patient identification, handover, fall and pressure ulcer prevention, VTE prophylaxis, deterioration recognition, medication reconciliation, hand hygiene and a full set of facility safety plans. And if your centre also runs medical wellness services, Annex A adds five more requirements of its own. Surveyors expect each one implemented, documented and auditable.
One system for both licences
The AGS Long-Term Care & Medical Wellness Management System is an 80-document architecture built for the 2nd Edition 2025 standard. Every one of the 21 GSRs is mapped to a specific SOP; the Medical Wellness annex gets a dedicated procedure and its own audit checklist. Policies cover the sensitive territory — restraint minimisation, protection from abuse, rights and dignity — in language written for long-term care, not adapted from acute care.
The package at a glance:
- 1 Quality & Care Manual and 7 policies, including Restraint Minimisation & Protection from Abuse
- 29 SOPs, including a dedicated Medical Wellness procedure
- 22 ready-to-use forms plus a Master Records Register & Retention Schedule
- 14 audit checklists, including gap-assessment/survey-readiness and a Medical Wellness audit
- 3 guidance documents — Compliance Matrix, Implementation Roadmap, Survey Readiness & Scoring Guide
- 3 training documents, including a GAHAR LTC awareness course
Be survey-ready for every resident, every day
Start with the gap-assessment checklist, then let the roadmap pace your implementation month by month. Everything is instantly downloadable, fully editable Microsoft Word — insert your centre's details and begin. Get the AGS LTC & Medical Wellness Management System — GAHAR 2nd Edition 2025 — from AGS today.
Product: GAHAR-LTC-and-Medical-Wellness-Management-System-2025 — available as an instant-download, fully editable package from AGS (SKU AGS-02-002).