Stop making excuses
In healthcare, there’s a knee-jerk fear that admitting a mistake or error in judgment will lead to a lawsuit, and so an excuse is made. While it’s important to hear someone out as to their...
In healthcare, there’s a knee-jerk fear that admitting a mistake or error in judgment will lead to a lawsuit, and so an excuse is made. While it’s important to hear someone out as to their...
How do you justify the reason for rehab, length of stay and intensity of treatment? You turn to the 3 C’s.
We must change the conversation around long-term care, dispelling myths and encouraging people to speak frankly and plan realistically for the needs of people as they age.
Tim Mullaney is a staff writer at McKnight’s.
On a macro level, expanding Medicaid reimbursement for assisted living will result in higher demand across the board. Serving Medicaid residents is not for every assisted living provider, but may be very...
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Back when I worked in psych, one of our most effective tools to improve mental health was maintaining a healing emotional environment, or therapeutic milieu. That’s why I was shocked when I first...
Have you reviewed end-of-life care plans with your staff? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently made changes to the surveyor guidance for End of Life in Appendix PP of the SOM. This was...
Here’s the good news for providers: new analytics are making it possible to understand and bill your care in ways that would have been impossible just a few years ago. Here’s the bad news:...
In the 2013 McKnight’s Online Expo session on Immediate Jeopardy, we did not have time to answer all the questions asked. Here is a follow-up Q and A, answered by presenter Joan Redden, the vice...