PBJ staffing data submission gaining steam, CMS officials say
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Apr 29, 2016
Nearly half of skilled nursing facilities have registered to voluntarily submit electronic staffing data, officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid said Thursday during an SNF Open Door Forum...
There’s another tsunami coming you probably haven’t thought about
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Feb 21, 2017
There’s a significant facet of the coming “silver tsunami” that most providers might be overlooking, according to a recently published report.
Your future ratings rest in residents’ hands
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Jan 31, 2017
Any news story that heralds a something as the “next frontier” in healthcare is probably worth clicking on, right?
New quality measures will hit the Five-Star on July 27
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Jul 15, 2016
Five of the six new quality measures for skilled nursing facilities announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be phased into the Five-Star Quality Ratings system on July 27, CMS officials...
6 new quality measures coming to Nursing Home Compare, Five-Star rating system
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Mar 04, 2016
New quality measures for skilled nursing facilities will be introduced in the coming months, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said during an Open Door Forum call for providers Thursday.
Communication lessons from Yoda
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Jun 28, 2016
What can long-term care professionals learn from Yoda from “Star Wars”? On the surface, probably not a lot — unless you ask Stacey Starling, Ph.D.
Improving employee competency testing in long-term care facilities can help reduce rehospitalizations, cut down on workplace injuries and boost overall resident care, an expert told a national gathering...
Paging Dr. Google
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Aug 30, 2016
Experts recently squared off on the use of medical websites, and whether they can help keep patients engaged in their care or run the risk of misinforming them about serious medical conditions (and annoy...
Using the powers of Facebook for good, not evil
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Aug 15, 2017
As more people join social media and start voicing their opinions online, more long-term care consumers — like it or not — are likely to turn to social media ratings since government review sites...
Let the government teach you a lesson about millennials
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Oct 04, 2016
The stars in the workforce-strategy universe must have aligned on Thursday, because a new government report about millennials dropped around the same time that we kicked off a webcast on hiring and retaining...