Stakeholders observe necessities, limits of ‘home-like’ design movement
How to do it … Mitigating worker injuries
By
John Hall
Jul 09, 2018
Few things can cause a bigger setback in any long-term care facility than a workplace injury. Imbuing a safety mindset with each employee and constantly reinforcing safe practices can go far toward preventing...
The truth behind long-term care insurance
By
Brendan Williams
Jul 06, 2018
For some, long-term care insurance has long been viewed, despite all evidence to the contrary, as a nostrum to fix what ails long-term care.
Life lessons from the Capital Gazette
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 06, 2018
Reflect for a moment, please, on your first job. The people you met, the lessons you learned, and how it influences you today.
Calling safe! Before you are … OUT!
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 05, 2018
In a culture that calls for more person-centered and person-directed care, we often have to caution our patients to not call themselves “safe,” before they are discharged out of our care.
Skilled care operators feeling the pinch. Or should we say, pinches?
By
John O'Connor
Jul 02, 2018
“This is going to be the wave of the future.” If you happen to be a long-term care operator looking for words to live by, the above sentence is a pretty good choice.
How SNFs are cutting costs without cutting back on care
By
Betsy Rust
Jun 29, 2018
As if managing the health of patients wasn’t difficult and time-consuming enough, skilled nursing facilities now have to do more to manage their increasingly complex businesses as well.
Using machine learning to reduce waste in post-acute care
Jun 27, 2018
The increasing use of machine learning is changing the way health plans and provider systems manage hospital discharge and select PAC facility partners to provide skilled nursing facility, inpatient rehabilitation...
Managed care’s skilled nursing legacy: creativity or just The Big Squeeze?
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 27, 2018
The vision of a rough shaven wild West gunslinger comes to mind. An dirty-faced bandit who shoots up the floor under someone’s feet, just to see him jump.
Home-based acute care pilot drops transfers to skilled nursing facilities
By
Marty Stempniak
Jun 26, 2018
A “hospital at home” pilot program, tested by one New York healthcare system, reduced transfers to skilled nursing facilities, a new study finds.