Respondents reported key challenges they face in their fight to reduce healthcare-associated infections in their facilities.
Overcoming obstacles to optimizing engagement
By
Charles de Vilmorin
Dec 17, 2018
Last fall, Linked Senior collected information from activity directors across the country to determine what they love most about their work and what challenges they face day-to-day, especially when it...
Assessing, managing and monitoring clinical lymphedema
By
Richard Carreon
Dec 04, 2018
Skilled nursing leaders know that the number of women surviving breast cancer is rising. While this is good news, survivorship care has grown more complex and challenging for clinicians in skilled nursing...
Engaging your employees requires your own engagement
By
Justin Uhrich
Nov 26, 2018
While there are certainly things that need to be in place – employee benefits programs, wellness programs, regularly communications, etc., the ultimately success depends on leadership that leads.
Coverage of Social Determinants of Health have implications for SNFs
By
Cyndi Seiwert
Nov 21, 2018
Health disparities and complex social determinants of health (SDoH) have historically compromised patient access to quality care. But policy changes announced recently from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Addressing cognitive impairment
By
Haley Huckabee
Nov 14, 2018
Typical training for rehab professionals takes a deficit-based approach: identify the impairments, and work to correct them. While this approach works well for orthopedic surgery, stroke rehab, and other...
The value of virtual care in value-based purchasing
By
Lee Horner
Nov 12, 2018
By implementing a virtual care platform, SNFs are building their census by keeping beds filled (preventing avoidable re-hospitalizations), maintaining their incentive payments, and strengthening their...
Lack of PHI security persists
By
John DiMaggio
Nov 07, 2018
Don’t underestimate the complexity of cybersecurity.
Exercising and evaluating CMS emergency preparedness plans
By
Terry Zysk
Nov 02, 2018
You can’t painstakingly document and evaluate during an exercise or emergency, but detailed and comprehensive event logs can provide a great deal of information for evaluation.
The real life cost of inaccurate wound documentation
By
David Navazio
Oct 29, 2018
In a recent survey of wound care professionals who work in nursing homes, almost half reported observing wound documentation that was inaccurate and led to adverse patient outcomes including sepsis, gangrene,...