If new payment reform initiatives sowed the seeds of small disruptions in 2013 — narrowing referral networks and prompting clinical integration, those seeds will start sprouting bigger disruption...
Using technology-enabled care models to reduce readmissions
By
Alan Snell, M.D., MMM
Mar 06, 2013
As healthcare reform is implemented and hospitals are facing stiff readmission penalties, they will be looking for new models of care and strong post-discharge partners to help reduce avoidable readmissions....
How to survive the likely shift to bundled payments
By
Anthony Laflen
Dec 14, 2016
Shifting the focus from the volume of services provided to the patient outcomes achieved is remarkably beneficial to both parties.
Another way to capture ADLs
By
Stacy Darling
Nov 18, 2014
The conventional wisdom for improving Activities for Daily Living is to educate and re-educate and then educate again.
Caring for a senior after hip replacement surgery
By
Michelle Y. Llamas
Dec 07, 2012
In the United States, nearly half a million hip replacement surgeries are performed every year because of trauma and various forms of arthritis. These conditions tend to affect older adults, and as a long-term...
To get it right, providers need to get off track
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 28, 2012
It’s interesting how some of the best old sayings come back in modern forms time and time again. That’s what struck me after reading a news item we posted at mcknights.com Monday: “Established...
Transforming a non-profit system
By
Betsy Rust
Betsy Rust
Nov 07, 2014
Caring for older adults is becoming increasingly important not only to the financial viability of long-term care owners and operators but also to hospitals and health systems. Just a few years ago, senior...
Former nursing home aide writes powerful poems
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 07, 2014
Janice N. Harrington worked as a nursing home aide in college, and she drew on that experience to write “The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home.” This book-length collection of...
What’s in a name? We’re about to find out—maybe
Jan 21, 2011
Hope you have a pencil handy with your scorecard at home. One with a good eraser.
7 employee wellness ideas for the holidays (and beyond)
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Dec 08, 2015
After a staff training on reducing burnout in long-term care last week, a look through the evaluation forms was illuminating. A significant number of attendees — mostly nursing aides, nurses, and environmental...