How multi-layered, proactive interventions can help reduce hospitalizations
BioVigil Case Study: Achieving Increased Compliance & Infection Reduction by Staying Committed To Staff...
This study explores how Parker Health Group implemented an organization-wide electronic hand hygiene solution to replace direct observation. The resulting improvement in hand hygiene performance reduced...
Public health emergency revocation will unleash ‘traps for the unwary’
May 09, 2023
While much has been made of staffing flexibilities and waivers ending after May 11, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency also brings with it critical new enforcement concerns for skilled nursing...
SAMI: The tech integration spurring an increase in resident occupancy rates
Apr 20, 2023
ShiftKey CEO, Tom Ellis, discusses how tech-forward approaches to workforce gaps empower licensed professionals and enable facilities to make informed decisions that drive effective, consistent care.
‘Shedding a light … will be better for all,’ top defense attorney says of feds’ nursing...
Mar 20, 2023
Providers should not necessarily fear regulators’ ramped up scrutiny efforts on nursing home operators and private-equity investors in the long-term care space.
Running for FUN and raising interest in LTC jobs one mile at a time
Mar 13, 2023
Times are tight in long-term care, and every penny counts. That’s why the Diakonos Group’s Todd Beesley went the distance last week. He recorded 62 miles in 48 hours to raise money for employees in...
Psychotropic stewardship can be the cure to stepped-up audits
Feb 27, 2023
CMS plans to increase psychotropic drugs oversight – to include targeted audits. These stepped up efforts follow the latest updates to the State Operations Manual surveyors started using...
Revenue-boosting strategies for a struggling SNF industry
Feb 08, 2023
The pandemic has changed the revenue drivers for skilled nursing providers. Revenue recovery & diversification Post-acute care, which nationally has tended to be less than 25% of patient days of care but...
Keeping a good run going in 2023
Strategies for the year ahead are critical.
On PREP Act, ‘still too early to tell’ whether providers will be immune
Jan 09, 2023
Nearly three years since it was triggered, it’s “still too early to tell” how well the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act will protect nursing homes and other healthcare...