The McGuire Group’s Susan Grigg: Opening doors for employees and patients
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 28, 2022
For years, skilled nursing providers have pointed to career ladders as an important tool for retaining employees. But too often, moving up takes time, training or tuition money that entry-level frontline...
After dry spells, providers get vital Medicaid increases. Now the big fear: Will they be ‘1-and-done’?
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 12, 2023
As Medicaid negotiations successfully continue in various states, worries are already arising about how to sustain increases
Top therapy reimbursement for everyone: here’s how
By
Shelly Mesure, MS, OTR/L
Jul 18, 2011
If the Ultra High is the highest level of allowable treatment we may seek, it’s our professional obligation to clinically provide these levels of service to every patient.
Feds launch audit after Trilogy revises COVID deaths by 42%
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 18, 2022
Trilogy Health Services said it is welcoming a review of its COVID-19 data after federal regulators announced plans to audit the operators’ information after the company cut its nursing home pandemic...
Portable air purifiers cut airborne pathogens by 64 percent in SNF study
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 12, 2023
The devices also keep up to 90% of infectious airborne particles from entering a neighboring room, researchers said.
Hospice boosts care quality for Medicare beneficiaries with dementia: study
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 07, 2022
LTC residents with dementia greatly benefit from hospice, but that care must be tailored to avoid counterintuitively long stays and disenrollment, investigators say.
CMS issues ‘long overdue’ visitation guidelines for nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 25, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services excited the provider community and brought clarity to numerous aspects of restarting visits at nursing homes Wednesday.
Long-term care providers urged to prepare for widespread coronavirus testing
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 24, 2020
Providers are being urged to prepare for a dramatic increase in coronavirus testing as federal regulators and states continue to emphasize the importance of testing everyone in nursing facilities.
COVID-19 roundup: Ventilator use questioned, staff immunity testing, meds shortages and more…
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 08, 2020
Ventilation may be harmful for certain COVID-19 patients, say some critical care doctors. Plus: immunity testing may help staff return to work.
From grieving staff losses to becoming better bosses
By
Jason Davies
Mar 21, 2022
Servant leadership takes thoughtfulness and introspection, but it will save you valuable employees in the long run.