Rehabilitative care is the answer for many patients who show a change in mobility or performance in daily tasks, pain, and speech- and swallow-related challenges. When properly delivered, therapy intervention...
Sometimes a carrot is really a stick … but sometimes it’s 24-karat gold!
By
Steven Littlehale
Nov 27, 2017
We all yearn for a time when value-based purchasing (and care) loses its originality. A time when motivations for providing excellent care and achieving excellent resident outcomes are aligned with reimbursement.
Medicare Open Enrollment: An autumn tradition?
By
Matthew Gallardo
Sep 25, 2015
The benefit of vast choice actually creates frustration and confusion for many and may cause “decision-making paralysis.”
Antipsychotic medication reduction and the severely mentally ill population
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Mar 08, 2022
President Biden’s State of the Union address last week targeted several aspects of the long-term care industry, most of which have received more attention than his mention of reducing the inappropriate...
PDPM: Keep calm and choose wisely
By
Renee Kinder
Aug 29, 2019
As PDPM comes ever nearer to being reality, conversations across therapy teams should remain focused on ensuring care is uniquely skilled, and that therapists are practicing at the top of their clinical...
What’d you ‘SA’? Considerations for aphasia
By
Renee Kinder
Oct 08, 2020
Imagine for a moment being trapped in your own mind.
Unable to form words, unable to understand others.
The tie between revenue and risk managment
By
Tim Goux and Scout Blount
Oct 20, 2014
By providing the best level of care, a provider will help ensure resident satisfaction as well as foster a positive work environment for employees. Poor quality will affect a provider’s revenue stream.
Provider survival strategies in an at-risk environment
By
David Gruber, M.D.
Dec 18, 2017
National health expenditures will increase from $3.5 trillion in 2017 to $5.5 trillion in 2025, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. That’s two trillion dollars in only eight...
Hardwiring the invisible: Culture is a choice
By
David Baumgartner
Sep 12, 2016
At Signature we have been on a long term project helping leaders to learn to recognize actions that support and/or conflict the Sacred Six.
Creating a ‘Just Culture’
By
Kathleen Mace
May 19, 2015
Defined by the Office of Inspector General as “harm resulting from medical care,” adverse events are imperative for skilled nursing facilities to avoid. This can be achieved by implementing...