As consumers grow more comfortable with using performance information to help select care providers for their loved ones, and regulators increasingly evaluate providers based on data, the move by Georgia...
Predicting future SNF viability through the Facility Stability Index
By
Steven Littlehale
Jun 24, 2022
While shopping for my first condo in 1993, I was initially drawn to new and shiny developments in an area of Boston that was “up and coming.” I visited one abode that seemed promising at first. Its...
Rise above the regulations and the system
By
Martie Moore
Feb 18, 2020
My mother spent her last night as a boarder in an Emergency Department somewhere in America.
Grow census through electronic referral management
By
Dawn Iddings
Jun 08, 2018
As this competition rises, what are you doing to stand out from the crowd? How are you gaining a competitive edge when it comes to securing your place as preferred referral partner?
Your CRM isn’t enough: How a digital admissions platform can help
By
Darren Mathis
Apr 09, 2018
A customer relationship management (CRM) system is an integral part of the sales process in a successful senior living community. While it has a number of capabilities essential to managing the resident...
Why federal funding for nursing-care information technology would be a good investment
By
Ken Terry
Mar 02, 2011
Long-term care is the stepchild of the healthcare industry. So it’s not surprising that none of the $27 billion extended by the federal government for health information technology is available to...
MDS 3.0 and RUG-IV: It takes a team
By
Loren Claypool
Aug 24, 2010
The upcoming implementation of MDS 3.0 makes it even more apparent that changes in key operational and clinical systems are necessary now to ensure a successful implementation that fosters resident-centered...
PDPM is here. Let’s embrace Utopia.
By
Rosanna L. Benbow
Oct 03, 2019
For years, I have joked that I teach things for the Utopian World — the world as it should be — with the knowledge they won’t always happen that way. But, as of late, I am struggling with statements...
Enhancing resident independence
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jul 02, 2019
As we celebrate our freedoms in the country this week, perhaps we can consider ways in which to create a better balance between the need to provide a safe environment for residents and their right to make...
Addressing cognitive impairment
By
Haley Huckabee
Nov 14, 2018
Typical training for rehab professionals takes a deficit-based approach: identify the impairments, and work to correct them. While this approach works well for orthopedic surgery, stroke rehab, and other...