Short-term rehabilitation programs are designed to promote and ease individuals’ return to home environments and assist with re-entry into the community within a relatively short period of time.
Evaluating extensive versus moderate assist
By
Renee Kinder
Aug 17, 2015
Step one for improving accuracy for Section G ADL coding is to improve understanding between the language MDS uses to define levels of function and impairment in comparison to how rehab teams and nursing...
Finally, a leader who’s willing to speak out
Aug 10, 2015
Among the police, it’s known as the blue wall of silence. This unwritten rule regularly comes into play when a fellow officer’s errors, poor behavior or possible crimes are under scrutiny....
Healing practices for nurses in LTC
By
A. Lynne Wagner, EdD, MSN, RN, FACCE
Jul 29, 2015
Nurses and other healthcare providers are privileged to intimately care for their patients and patients’ families daily during patients’ most vulnerable and life-altering times of profound...
Thinking beyond the swallow
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 15, 2015
Meal times are well-defined, often highly structured and supervised intervals during the day in many skilled nursing facilities.
Evaluating holiday programming
By
Michael McCann, MS
Oct 22, 2014
The pressure is on, as you and your life enrichment teams need to find time to properly plan holiday events in order to make them fresh, exciting and impactful.
Success without silos
By
Julie Williamson
Sep 01, 2014
Minimum data set coordinators should get as much support as possible from colleagues as they navigate data set changes and ever-evolving requirements
Nice-Pak Products and PDI celebrate Earth Week with solar system
Apr 22, 2014
Nice-Pak Products Inc. and sister company Professional Disposables International Inc., celebrated Earth Week by installing a solar array on the roof of its headquarters and manufacturing plant.
CMS too burdened and focused on cost to be the epicenter of long-term care reform, experts say
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 21, 2013
Most long-term care reforms rely on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for implementation, but the overburdened agency cannot manage all the needed changes in this area, according to a panel...
Kindred shifts allegiance to Omnicare from PharMerica
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 01, 2013
Kindred Healthcare will split with PharMerica and instead partner with Omnicare in 2014, marking a significant change in the landscape of long-term care pharmacy services providers.