Pest season is about to spring up
For long-term care facilities, fair weather may encourage residents, visitors and staff to increase trips between the indoors and outdoors, allowing more pests the opportunity to enter the facility.
Latest acquisition target: aging CEOs
What’s the most critical due-diligence document to consider before making a run at a company? Turns out it may be the CEO’s birth certificate.
Why home care incentives will help SNFs
Under a new program, New Hampshire will receive a fistful of dollars in order to keep people out of nursing homes. Seems like a bad break, right? In fact, wise nursing home operators will be grateful.
You’re hired!
Lots of research would have you believe that recruiting compassionate, qualified nursing home workers in small, rural towns is a difficult task — or at least harder than in large cities. Not necessarily...
Is this billable time?
The title sounds like an obvious question, but I can guarantee that the majority of therapists have under billed at some point in their career.
A good first step but more to do with MDS 3.0
It was a long first day, but there was tremendous value and everyone who is here has learned what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ positions are with the April updates and some of the...
When opportunity knock-knocks: It falls right into your lap(top)
Maybe you’ve heard the one that starts like this: A long-term care administrator, director of nursing and resident walk into a bar …
Catheters, infections and … you don’t want to know
Urinary catheters were on my radar twice last week. The first involved a late-night trip to the vet with an unhappy cat. The second, a political animal.
Medicare Part A Length of Stay: Part III
More providers need how to use an interdisciplinary team approach to be more effective when managing transitions from the nursing home environment to a community living setting.
Questionable therapy practices could put operators to the test
Ready to take the therapy services quiz? The good news is that it only has one question and it’s multiple choice. But you don’t want to fail. Ready?
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