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The elephant in the room: PDPM clinical success metrics
By
Steven Littlehale
Feb 28, 2020
Are we prepared to defend the increase in Patient Driven Payment Model revenue with superior clinical outcomes?
The RAW data truth about Medicare Part B
By
Renee Kinder
Feb 27, 2020
If there is a buzzword being used in our industry right now, it would be “data.” What will your data say about you?
PDPM altering provider use of therapy
By
Lauren G. Perry
Feb 26, 2020
Some believe the Patient Driven Payment Model is leading to “uncertainty” in the caregiving process.
A look at Germany’s intriguing long-term care system
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Feb 25, 2020
There’s a lot we can learn from the German long-term care system.
How to reduce medication overload in long-term care
By
Judith Garber
Shannon Brownlee
Feb 24, 2020
Over the past decade, the use of multiple medications (clinically known as “polypharmacy”) has skyrocketed among older adults. Aging brings ailments and chronic illnesses, and more illnesses generally...
For residents with chronic pain, pain management and bowel care should go hand in hand
By
Yvonne D'Arcy
Feb 21, 2020
Pain is a component of many chronic conditions, making chronic pain a health concern on its own. In fact, as many as 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, including myself. In 1991, I fell in...
Love in the air
By
Gary Tetz
Feb 20, 2020
Love was in the air this Valentine’s Day, and in the days before and after. Let me tell you the ways.
If I’m OK and you’re OK, then why are things so messed up?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 19, 2020
There was a book back in the day called “I’m OK, You’re OK.” Frankly, I thought it was kind of stupid.
Rise above the regulations and the system
By
Martie Moore
Feb 18, 2020
My mother spent her last night as a boarder in an Emergency Department somewhere in America.
Facts, not anecdotes, must guide long-term care policy
By
Brendan Williams
Feb 14, 2020
An oft-repeated canard that bedevils advocates for facility-based care is the assertion, by an organization that peddles Medicare insurance products, that “90% of people don’t want to be in a nursing...