With new options for plant-based foods proliferating, 2020 is a great time to assess your facility’s menu with the dietary and food service departments to consider substitutions and alternatives.
Does your nursing home have room to improve? Consider a Civil Monetary Penalty Grant program
By
Peg Tobin
Jan 03, 2020
Could this be your facility or one that you know? A marketing consultant visited a skilled nursing facility recently and was set back by the response she received. This was her experience: “To get inside,...
The importance of recognizing and treating depression in cardiac residents at skilled nursing facilities
By
Tiney Ray, Ph.D., DNP, FNP-BC
Jan 02, 2020
Acute cardiac events, such as heart failure, affect over 2 million individuals in the United States each year, with over half of these individuals being over the age of 65. Annually, cardiac events cause...
Staffing takes a front seat when driving quality of care
By
Chris Caulfield
Dec 12, 2019
The Five-Star Quality rating system, which was developed by CMS to help consumers select and compare skilled nursing care centers, assigns ratings to facilities using information from healthcare surveys...
The new era of PDPM is here: What’s next?
By
Tim Ashe
Dec 11, 2019
With Oct. 1 now in the rearview mirror, providers in the long-term care (LTC) industry, including nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), must adapt to new regulations that impact their Medicare...
What 2019 taught us about digital transformation in healthcare
By
Scott Magers
Dec 10, 2019
As a clinician, it is my hope that technology will improve patient care, outcomes and customer satisfaction across the entire continuum of care for all involved — patients, providers and payers. We are...
It’s time for this phenomenal new dementia care approach
By
Barbara Brock
Dec 09, 2019
I want us to be at the front of the line in advancing to a higher quality of care for these residents. We’re missing the boat, we really are.
Let’s talk turkey about early PDPM trends
By
Steven Littlehale
Nov 26, 2019
We’re not even two months in, and some very interesting trends for the Patient Driven Payment Model are beginning to emerge.
Get on the bus. Workplace culture can drive success.
By
Leigh Ann Barney
Nov 26, 2019
As president of a certified Great Place to Work (and the No. 4 company on Fortune’s Best Workplaces for Aging Services in the Large Seniors Housing and Care category), I am often asked what is unique...
Behavioral health gets noticed, but challenges remain
By
Bernadette Greatorex
Nov 14, 2019
In 2018, 1 in 25 U.S. adults (or 11.4 million people) had a serious behavioral health need. Patients residing in skilled nursing facilities present with a variety of mental health...