Resident Chart Tabs for Long-Term Care & Skilled Nursing

Resident charts are wider than a clinic chart because they carry the care-planning and daily-record side as well as the clinical one. A representative structure, renamed to match your own forms:

• Face Sheet / Admission — admission record, demographics, insurance, responsible party
• Physician Orders — standing and telephone orders, order recaps
• Care Plan — the plan of care and its revisions
• MDS / Assessments — assessment documentation and supporting worksheets
• Progress & Nursing Notes — interdisciplinary and shift notes
• Medications / MAR — medication administration records, allergies, pharmacy communications
• Labs & Diagnostics — results, imaging reports, consult results
• Therapy — PT, OT and speech notes and certifications
• ADL / Flow Records — daily care and activities-of-daily-living documentation
• Advance Directives & Consents — signed directives, consents, authorizations
• Social Services & Activities — assessments, notes, care conference records
• Dietary / Nutrition — diet orders, nutrition assessments, weights

In a facility, the person pulling a chart is rarely the person who assembled it. Night shift, agency staff, therapy, a consultant pharmacist and a surveyor all open the same binder expecting the same order. When two units file the same document in different sections, retrieval turns into a search.

Printed, collated sets remove that variance by construction: identical wording, identical order, in every chart on every unit. Empty tab positions also do quiet work — a section with nothing behind it is visible immediately, rather than discovered by someone looking for a document that was never filed.

Resident charts are consumed steadily rather than bought once: every admission needs a new chart, and long stays outgrow the first binder and get split into volumes. That makes the volume forecastable, which is why facilities tend to order the year in a run rather than reordering monthly.

Multi-facility groups get the additional benefit of one structure across every building — the design is saved, so a second location orders an identical set without re-specifying it, and a corporate consultant reviewing charts sees the same binder everywhere.

• Minimum 25 sets; volume pricing past 1,000 for facility or group orders
• The saved design means every reorder matches the original exactly
• Chart thinning: both volumes get the same section structure, so nothing depends on which volume someone pulls

Resident charts are among the highest-handling binders in healthcare. Solid .015 poly wipes clean, resists moisture, and is effectively tear-proof — the usual pick for the active chart at the station. Mylar-reinforced 90# or 110# paper costs less and still protects the tab extension, which is where unreinforced dividers fail and where a torn tab turns a section into loose paper.

Both are letter size, 3-hole punched for standard chart rings, and print up to two lines per tab, one or both sides. Color-code one section per color and staff read the section without reading the tab.

Minimum 25 sets, priced live online with no quote request. Paper produces in about 5 business days from proof approval, poly in about 15. Purchase orders are accepted by email with Net-30 invoicing, and a free PDF proof routes to whoever signs off before anything prints.

Tabzoola manufactures the chart dividers. It does not provide clinical, documentation or regulatory guidance, and nothing here should be read as advice on what a resident record must contain, how long it must be retained, or what a surveyor will require. The section list belongs to your facility's policies, your DON or administrator, and your own consultants; we print it exactly as given.