According to Harvard Health Blog, recent studies indicate that 50-80% of patients recovered from COVID-19 continue to have at least one adverse symptom three months after the onset, even if the patient...
Navigating the future of LTC: A tech-driven journey to value-based excellence
By
David L. Morris
Oct 25, 2023
Value-based care (VBC) organizations – and especially Accountable Care Organizations – rely on strategies that shift care from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities to manage costs and still ensure...
What to know about QAPI
By
Tamar Abell
Jul 31, 2019
The final wave of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulations were all scheduled to go into effect November 2019.
To reduce hospital readmissions, consider the power of voice technology
By
Bruce Baron
Nov 03, 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital readmission for older adults had become a $20 billion annual expense for Medicare. An important study by the University of Texas Division of Rehabilitation Sciences...
Prepare now for upcoming COVID testing, reporting rules and new penalties
By
Amy Wilmot Schrader
Stefanie J. Doyle
Oct 22, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ wide-ranging rule bolstering its regulatory authority to address issues relating to the COVID-19 public health emergency contains two notable directives...
Long-term healthcare compliance officer: A complex job with high stakes
By
David Barmak, J.D.
Jun 16, 2020
A Jan. 15, 2014, article published in the Wall Street Journal titled “Compliance Officer: Dream Career?” identified being a compliance officer as “one of the hottest jobs in America.” While an...
Using real-time technology to help healthcare leaders tackle pandemic safety in long-term care facilities
By
RJ Frasca
May 28, 2021
Nursing homes became “ground zero” for COVID-19 when the first wave of the virus arrived in the United States in Spring 2020. Although less than half of 1% of the U.S. population resides in nursing...
Redefining long-term care from a person-centered perspective
By
Hannah Patterson
Jan 23, 2020
Over recent years, healthcare has experienced a significant evolution in how it operates and is delivered. With a duty to achieve high quality and cost-efficient care, long-term care organizations are...
Fight deadly germs with smarter technology
By
Deric Blattenberger
Oct 10, 2019
Recent headlines have inundated us with news about the alarmingly rapid spread of a new and deadly strain of C. auris — a drug-resistant fungus, still with no discernible origin, that has seen 309 cases...
Mastering the ‘how’ behind that marketing ‘wow’
By
Marty Jensen
Oct 31, 2019
When Wyndemere Senior Living in Wheaton, IL, launched an expansion this summer, it was our first major capital project since 1999. Meeting — and then exceeding — marketing expectations was critical....