Improving quality is the key to surviving payment reform. Here are six ways LTC providers can boost their quality.
Digital practice in LTC: Impact of AI, AR and digital technologies
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 15, 2018
Many of us working on reform since the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the turbulent 1960s witnessed reform in the guise of reworking, re-engineering, redevising, recreating, redesigning and refashioning.
Outcome assessment and the Affordable Care Act
By
James Lomastro
Jun 26, 2013
Outcome assessment should be seen as a tool for change management and will likely become the new standard for assessing resident care under the Affordable Care Act.
Looking at Massachusetts in LTSS reform
By
James Lomastro
Oct 20, 2017
We can learn a lot by examining Massachusetts, a state that has embraced healthcare reform and currently working to transform its Medicaid program.
Long-term care financing reform – progress is possible
By
Brian D. Ellsworth and Arthur Y. Webb
Nov 13, 2013
When the federal Commission on Long-term Care issued its report last month, there was a sense of déjà vu all over again. Sixteen years ago, in New York State, we were staff person and task force member,...
The emerging role of the citizen in healthcare reform
By
James Lomastro
Jun 29, 2016
As with other social movements – think about civil rights related to disability or race – change requires the engagement of those involved in it
Building championship teams during uncertain times for SNFs
By
Joseph DeMattos Jr.
Feb 13, 2017
As we face payment reform, delivery reform, the aging of America, the strength and challenge of an increasingly age and ethnically diverse workforce and the consumer demands of aging boomers, now more...
GTB. AYS?
By
Shelly Mesure, MS, OTR/L
Oct 22, 2013
Can anyone guess what the title to this blog is stating? In the current culture of text messaging and abbreviations for everything, it can be a danger zone for medical documentation. Unfortunately, I have...
Self-inspections and how they provide safety
By
Scott Harkins
May 26, 2017
The appearance of a facility’s buildings and grounds helps form the first impression visitors have.
A policy framework for long-term care
By
Bruce Chernof, M.D.
Feb 29, 2016
There’s also recognition that no one can hold out for a new, large entitlement program to fix this problem since the necessary bipartisan support for passage does not exist.