Measuring and improving healthcare quality, safety and performance remain constants
By
Andy Weissberg
Aug 02, 2017
Many skilled nursing and long-term care providers face uncertainty stemming from the heated debates over repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the fate of the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
Medicare complainers line up here for help
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 27, 2017
If you’ve had some kind of complaint about the rigmarole of Medicare lately — and who hasn’t? — now’s the time to start getting it fixed.
SNF survival in an aging society
Jul 24, 2017
With the prevalence of multiple chronic conditions rising to three in four of those aged 65 and older, we face a ballooning number of people within the largest category of total Medicare spend –...
Sector-specific LTC pharmacy data warehouse now a reality
By
Phil Fogg Jr.
Jul 19, 2017
Ensuring the provision of quality post-acute care in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities requires the need to direct and perform an increasingly complex array of medication management regimes...
3 ways to strengthen your LTPAC-acute care relationship
By
Tom Hallisey
Jul 19, 2017
Working with a HIE, having a strong data governance structure and optimizing your EMR improves your overall capabilities while improving the flexibility of your organization.
Catching nurse impostors — if you can
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Jul 11, 2017
If you’ve ever seen the movie “Catch Me If You Can,” you’ve probably wondered how in the world the protagonist could get away with his scheme of working jobs he had no qualifications...
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...
One threat removed, but even bigger one remains
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 06, 2017
Make no mistake: Long-term care providers will take a victory wherever they can, and the Trump administration’s move to rescind the Obama administration’s ban on pre-dispute arbitration agreements...
The House just bet on tort reform. When will they ever learn?
By
John O'Connor
Jul 05, 2017
The long-term care field quickly embraced last week’s House vote to enact some long-overdue tort reform. That’s not so surprising, but don’t get too carried away just yet, is my advice.
The future of interoperability
By
Greg Nicholas
Jun 30, 2017
In the previous two articles of this three-part series, I have endeavored to make the case for interoperability with clong-term care owner-operators – from the basics of what it is and why it’s...