Minimum Data Set coordinators serve vital functions in today’s skilled nursing facilities — their ability to dig deep is so critical that one software executive likens it to navigating the Andromeda...
Skin in the game
By
John Hall
Jul 17, 2019
Experts tout back-to-basics to reverse skin-care shortfalls.
Ask the nursing expert
By
Anne Marie Barnett
Jul 01, 2008
Anne Marie Barnett, RN Former President, Maryland NADONA/LTC
New tools, funding catapult remote monitoring forward
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2020
Remote monitoring options continue to grow during the age of COVID-19, with many software vendors improving their offerings specifically for long-term care providers.
Each year’s a new start
By
John O'Connor
Jan 01, 2009
We can find many reasons to rejoice in a new year’s arrival.
Labor Department’s new $35K overtime threshold has skilled nursing advocates worried
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 04, 2019
Skilled nursing advocates are voicing concern about an expected Department of Labor proposal that would greatly increase the number of employees eligible for overtime pay.
Nursing home quality coalition heading into overtime
Oct 23, 2008
The Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign-a nationwide, voluntary quality improvement initiative-celebrated its second birthday this week.
Providers underreporting major injury falls on MDS, study suggests
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 02, 2020
Falls data used by the Nursing Home Compare website “may be highly inaccurate,” says researchers whose new study suggests that providers could be underreporting major-injury falls.
News report: Illegal nursing-home evictions on the rise
Aug 08, 2008
Increasingly, nursing homes are illegally turning out residents to help their bottom lines, according to an analysis in The Wall Street Journal.
Joint bundle pushes costs down — at SNFs’ expense
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2019
The first two years of a mandatory payment bundle for joint replacements saved Medicare more than 2% annually, but much of it came through reduced payments to post-acute providers.