How will PBJ impact Five-Star staffing? Would you like one lump or two?
By
Steven Littlehale
Mar 30, 2018
We don’t know when, and we don’t know how, but when Payroll-Based Journal staffing data replaces the data currently being captured from CMS Form 671 for calculating Five-Star staffing, we are...
Factoring in social risk to your value-based strategy
By
Ryan Sparks
Feb 22, 2017
Providers that were hoping to see adjustments to value-based purchasing programs based on the social risk factors of the patients they serve may likely have to wait until larger revisions to healthcare...
A natural evolution of the MDS coordinator: Nurse Informaticist
By
Steven Littlehale
Oct 27, 2017
Jennifer Gross, BSN, RN-BC, RAC-CT, fascinates me. Most recently, she completed a graduate certificate program in informatics, a subject that is playing a critical role in the explosion of health information...
PBMs must stop taking advantage of seniors and taxpayers
By
Alan G. Rosenbloom
Sep 24, 2018
out-of-control prescription drug pricing is most certainly hurting American seniors and the LTC pharmacies committed to ensuring access to medications and consulting services for Medicare beneficiaries...
Leadership strategies for a changing healthcare world
By
Lisa Thomson
Feb 01, 2013
Strong leadership is a vital ingredient to any successful organizational or system change. Increased consumer demands, strategic positioning and partnerships as well as an increased push towards community-based...
9 reasons why it’s better to congregate than disperse short-term rehab residents
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Aug 28, 2018
In most of my long-term care career, I’ve witnessed short-term rehabilitation residents housed together. But not always. I don’t know the reasoning behind dispersing residents, but from my...
Facility assessment, emergency preparedness and QAPI — a service delivery exercise
By
Jason Elizaitis
Jul 10, 2017
Your post-acute/long-term care organization should be well on its way to developing its Facility Assessment, Emergency Preparedness Plan and written QAPI plan for compliance by November 2017. The best...
Got chalance?
By
Scott McFadden
Jun 26, 2015
We have a word that reflects our cultural philosophy at Lutheran Homes and Harwood Place: “Chalance,” which is a concept which counters the more negative term of ‘nonchalance’ or...
Examining bed-rail use in long-term care
By
William A. Hyman and Gloria Black
Oct 07, 2015
Deaths and injuries from entrapments in bed rails continue to be a problem, especially for the frail, the cognitively impaired, or incapacitated elderly.
Life after consolidation: How LTC leaders can assimilate
By
Jennifer Bauer
Mar 21, 2014
Consolidation, a fact of life in today’s healthcare industry, is prevalent in the long-term care arena as well. Locally and regionally, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and home- and community-based...