Post-acute care facilities must excel at weaning patients off ventilators. After all, what hospital wants to transfer a patient to a facility with mediocre weaning success rates, after its staff has worked...
Research reveals good news for Life Plan Communities
By
Cate O’Brien, Ph.D.
Oct 26, 2018
Age Well Study open to additional participants until November 30
Uniform data collection key for SNF cost containment
By
Betsy Rust
Oct 09, 2015
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in July that it was implementing a system of bundled payments for knee and hip operations in 75 geographic areas of the country, it prompted...
New Year’s resolutions for a fraud-free 2020
By
Jeffrey D. Jeter
Jan 31, 2020
Now that the calendar has flipped to a new year, millions of Americans have made resolutions to better themselves in the year ahead. New Year’s resolutions are not a modern phenomenon and actually date...
The shortest distance between two points
By
Noah Marco
Feb 17, 2021
Prior to 1816, it was common practice for doctors to place their ears to patients’ chests to detect the workings of hearts, lungs and other organs. That year, French physician Rene Laennec, who was...
Skilled care, mental health focus needed to decrease hospitalizations
By
Gayle Morris
Jan 11, 2021
Preventing hospitalizations is as much a sign of good health in older adults as it is a way to maintain it. The burden of infection control, preventing skin breakdown, pneumonia — and the myriad other...
Young adults in long-term care: the canaries in the coal mine
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jul 11, 2008
The presence of young adults in long-term care in a way is helping better prepare facilities for the self-empowered baby boomers. Here are some recommendations for facilities to help improve the care they...
Leadership in the face of F.E.A.R
By
Martie Moore
Mar 22, 2020
When fear takes over our ability as leaders, our minds go into overdrive and what is not truth, becomes truth.
The Main Thing
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 18, 2012
How do we handle the growing numbers of things we’re already supposed to know, i.e. electronic health records, MDS 3.0, etc., and the even larger number of things we don’t know yet that we...
PDPM: New tricks from old dogs
By
Maureen McCarthy
Jan 25, 2019
Some changes for PDPM transition on Oct. 1 will revolve around the diagnoses and conditions of the resident.