Real Time Medical teams up with Signature on outcomes
By
Amy Novotney
May 03, 2023
Post-acute analytics solution firm Real Time Medical Systems has partnered with Kentucky-based Signature HealthCARE to implement the firm’s interventional analytics throughout all of Signature’s skilled...
Audits trigger new concern over aging CMS antipsychotic standards
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 03, 2023
Worries over federal audits designed to monitor nursing homes for inappropriate schizophrenia diagnosing continued to mount as some providers learned they had “failed” their check-ups months into the...
How to do it … Rehabbing facilities after the pandemic
By
John Hall
May 03, 2023
For many, routine maintenance and repairs were likely sidelined over the last three difficult years. Those are projects that still need to be addressed.
Sophisticated cyber attacks expose vulnerable LTC data
By
John Hall
May 01, 2023
Not long ago, Social Security numbers were highly valued commodities among cyberthieves. Today, the golden goose is a patient’s health record.
Fresh nursing home design combines tradition, new ideas
By
John Hall
May 01, 2023
After long mimicking the hospitality industry’s grand lobbies and communal spaces, long-term care designers are shifting to a “less is more” strategy.
A horse lover still kicking: Ann Collette
By
Nicole Bowman
May 01, 2023
Ann Collette has a photo of her childhood horse, Rosie, on her desk at Masonicare in Wallingford, CT. The chief of strategy still tears up when she talks about her “heart horse,” who died suddenly...
State cases add to SNF worries
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2023
An annual report outlining fraud control activities in the nation’s Medicaid facilities portends a challenging year ahead.
60 Seconds with … Sarah Berry, MD
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2023
Sarah Berry is a clinical researcher who compared delivery of therapy to nursing home residents before and after the pandemic started.
Ask the care expert … about infection prevention
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Apr 10, 2023
I am struggling as a new infection preventionist. Can you recommend ways I can learn more about my job and be sure our IP program protects both residents and staff?
Protocol helps shed meds before post-acute stay
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 10, 2023
Patients who start a deprescribing intervention before admission to a post-acute care facility have fewer medications at discharge and at 90-day follow-up than their peers with usual care, according to...