Following the closure of a 67-bed skilled nursing facility in White River Junction, state officials are asking whether regulatory changes are needed to monitor nursing homes.
Study explores dementia, advanced care
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2017
Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis are working with nursing homes to develop a program that provides advance care-planning for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and...
Nurses lacking ulcer awareness: study
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2017
Nurses need more training on medical device-related pressure ulcers, according to a prospective study published in Ostomy Wound Management.
Ask the Care Expert about … incontinence-associated dermatitis
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Sherrie Dornberger
Dec 06, 2017
We have a new wound care nurse and she insists that a few of our residents have “IAD.” I am not familiar with this. Can you help?
Profile: Earl L. ‘Buddy’ Carter
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2017
Soon after striking out on his own as a retail pharmacist, Earl L. “Buddy” Carter found himself back in the driver’s seat.
Providers wary of waiver
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Dec 06, 2017
Less than half of healthcare providers eligible to use the three-day hospital stay waiver available through the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative actually use it, a recent report shows.
Readmissions project brings 17% drop in hospitalizations
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Dec 06, 2017
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program created to reduce hospital readmissions among nursing home residents has shown positive results after three years, the agency announced.
Ask the Payment Expert about … the new survey process
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Patricia Boyer
Dec 06, 2017
How should our facility prepare for the new survey process?
New OT pay threshold search underway
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James M. Berklan
Dec 06, 2017
Although the Trump administration didn’t like its predecessor’s new threshold for determining overtime pay eligibility, it apparently is taking steps to raise the cut off point.
State, fed relationship will be ‘reset’ by Medicaid overhaul
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Dec 06, 2017
The relationship between the federal government and states participating in the Medicaid program will be “reset” under Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Administrator Seema Verma’s...