The standard nomination deadline for the McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards is Friday, Oct. 20 — just two days away!
AI: Living in the future
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Oct 17, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is a rapidly growing field that has the potential to revolutionize the way medical professionals diagnose and treat patients. The use of AI algorithms and machine...
Respiratory therapy, other coded services creating software snags under new MDS
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 17, 2023
More than two weeks into dealing with a large-scale update to the Minimum Data Set, providers continue to grapple with a range of coding concerns, including an inability of some software systems to capture...
New research ties unions to lower nursing home staff turnover. Could they be a key partner ahead of federal...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 13, 2023
Union representation is linked to a significant reduction in nursing home staff turnover, according to a first-of-its-kind research letter published today in JAMA Network Open.
Unions to the rescue?
By
John O'Connor
Oct 16, 2023
Ben Franklin famously assured us life has two guarantees. They are higher taxes and death. If Ben were alive today and owned a nursing home, he’d probably add a third: Unions will ruin everything.
Fasten your seatbelts: It MIGHT be a bumpy ride
By
Steven Littlehale
Oct 13, 2023
It’s been a flurry of activity leading up to the implementation of the “new MDS.” For months our industry has been doing what we do best — rising to the occasion. Countless MDS training sessions,...
Another state takes the Medicaid MCO plunge as questions about delayed, denied care mount
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Oct 13, 2023
As Indiana transitions its senior and long-term care Medicaid beneficiaries into plans run by several managed care organizations, a snag in the rollout is giving skilled nursing providers another reason...
Not so fast with the LTC study scorn
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 13, 2023
Long-term care providers have a lot to be grateful for and, no, this isn’t an early start on a perfunctory Thanksgiving column.
Expand early hospital-to-post-acute transfer payments to save millions: OIG
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 12, 2023
Expanding the types of conditions for which hospital patients can be discharged early to post-acute care, forgoing full prospective payment, could save the Medicare system millions of dollars annually,...
How do we offer hope when we can’t see beyond the next shift?
By
Julie Thorson
Oct 11, 2023
Find hidden hope and hold on to it. Hope in healthcare hides in plain sight. Hope is here. It’s unfortunate that sometimes the moments of frustration overtake our soft, but powerful, hopeful...