Ask the treatment expert: How can we prevent fungal skin infections in hot weather?
Jun 02, 2021
How can we prevent fungal skin infections in hot weather?
Ask the payment expert: What has changed now that data is based on an entirely different payment model?
By
Eleisha Wilkes, RN, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, DNS-CT
Jun 02, 2021
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) gathers data on billing patterns of U.S. SNFs. So, what has changed now that data is based on an entirely different payment model?
Ask the legal expert: Can we be sued by resident families who say their loved ones contracted COVID-19...
By
John Durso
Jun 02, 2021
Can we be sued by resident families who say their loved ones contracted COVID-19 because we did not do enough to keep to keep them safe?
Ask the nursing expert: What can the nursing department do to improve our census?
By
Amy Stewart
Jun 02, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has lowered our facility’s census by nearly 20%. What can the nursing department do to improve our census?
How to do it … Antipsychotics management
By
John Hall
Jun 02, 2021
Long-term care providers have made great strides in reducing the use of psychotropic medication among residents. But once COVID-19 hit, some resorted to dispensing higher levels of these meds to address...
Reimagining SNFs
By
John Andrews
Jun 02, 2021
Design plays a critical role in creating a balance between care and comfort for residents at Spring Grove Rehabilitation & Healthcare.
No overinflated worries
By
John O'Connor
Jun 02, 2021
Janet Yellen insists inflation is not something we need to be terribly concerned about. Yet it has been on my mind quite a bit lately. Perhaps it should be on yours, as well.
Pay fixes are coming — without as much pain?
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 02, 2021
Could it be that federal regulators and the caregivers they oversee are becoming more civil to one another?
Managed care pouncing on promise of lower rates
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 01, 2021
You’ve surely already heard your organization should brace for an adjustment that brings the Patient Driven Payment Model back to budget-neutral status.
Ben Franklin and me
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 01, 2021
So apparently, Benjamin Franklin had gout. I mention this because apparently I do, too. Of all the things we could have had in common, this wouldn’t have been my top choice.