Restorative nursing boosts resident care and billing levels, expert explains
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McKnight's Staff
Jul 25, 2012
Activities of daily living and restorative nursing present good chances to optimize reimbursement, a nursing expert said Tuesday at the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration/Long-Term...
Antipsychotic reduction in LTC leads to drug substitutions, more delusions diagnoses
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 16, 2022
Antipsychotic reduction in long-term care facilities likely results in significant unintended fallout, new data from Canada show. The results mirror those of similar studies in the United States, with...
MDS data quality: Things are not always as they seem
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Steven Littlehale
Jul 15, 2013
Open up the hood and look at the engine. Does the data scrubbing module focus only on standard CMS coding and consistency checks and the “RUG” items, or is it more robust and emphasize clinical...
I0020B coding: The right message at the right time
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Renee Kinder
Feb 11, 2021
Ever receive the exact right message at the right time? It happened to me last night at 9:21 p.m. EST. A simple email of thanks and kindness landed in my inbox. A thanks, really at that time undeserved,...