Ask the payment expert … about quality of care and reimbursements
By
Patricia Boyer
May 01, 2014
Many states are at the forefront of pay for performance initiatives. These tie payment incentives to quality measurements and outcomes. These programs are encouraged by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Advancing Excellence now embraces nurses in policy
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 01, 2014
Nurses’ efforts to be leaders in a national effort to improve long-term care showed how they can attain greater influence over healthcare policy, according to an article recently published in Geriatric...
Nursing home administrators do not believe that pay-for-performance improves care quality or facility...
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 21, 2014
Most nursing home administrators do not believe that pay-for-performance initiatives lead to improved resident care or stronger bottom lines, according to findings recently published in the Journal of...
CDC unveils new website to boost long-term care infection control efforts
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 24, 2014
Long-term care providers can refer to a newly launched website to access information and resources to prevent infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
60 seconds with … Doug Pace, NHA
May 01, 2014
Q: Will the recent Inspector General’s report on SNF adverse events put more focus on quality efforts like Advancing Excellence?
A: You never know how much traction these reports are going to get.
Advancing Excellence unveils new goals, including resident mobility, infection management
By
Tim Mullaney
Aug 21, 2013
The Advancing Excellence campaign has released updated goals and called on nursing homes to actively use the framework for achieving better quality care.
Advancing Excellence searching for another new leader
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 17, 2013
A high-profile long-term care quality group has begun search plans for another new executive director, just six months after filling the position previously.
Rhode Island’s Gifford named new national nursing home and assisted living quality chief
Mar 02, 2011
The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living on Tuesday named Dr. David R. Gifford as their senior vice president of quality and regulatory affairs, a new department within...
Systematic improvement is a key to larger culture change in long-term care, Advancing Excellence leader...
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 05, 2013
The Advancing Excellence campaign is well known for helping long-term care providers improve on measureable quality goals, but the program goes beyond this to create less quantifiable changes, according...
Why do we do some of this ‘stuff’?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 15, 2012
We do a lot of “stuff” in nursing that makes no sense (both in acute care and long-term care — I’m not singling us out here). We do a lot of things that waste precious time and are...