When access isn’t enough: Promoting COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among minority, frontline nursing...
By
Richard Feifer, M.D., MPH
LaShuan Bethea, J.D., BSN
Feb 26, 2021
Nursing home staff are working tirelessly to protect our most vulnerable population against COVID-19, but many remain wary about getting vaccinated. The issue is particularly acute among minority groups,...
Operators are not ‘blasé’ about negative stories
By
Michael Wylie
Aug 08, 2018
Rather than putting the burden on skilled nursing providers, I challenge the news media, along with other institutions, to be fair and accurate, and report the good news, too.
Want to live longer? Find your purpose
By
Melissa Powell
Apr 15, 2022
One of the most positive things older adults can do to find purpose in their lives — whether they live in the community or a nursing home — is to prioritize socialization.
The elephant in the room: PDPM clinical success metrics
By
Steven Littlehale
Feb 28, 2020
Are we prepared to defend the increase in Patient Driven Payment Model revenue with superior clinical outcomes?
It’s time for full transparency
By
Michael Wasserman
Jan 13, 2021
I threw down the gauntlet for the nursing home industry to focus on clinical care two years ago. I warned that in the spring of 2020, providers would “start to hurt because the cost of caring...
Crossing the quality chasm in dementia care
By
Jackie Pinkowitz and Karen Love
Mar 27, 2013
All too often, dementia care in this country reflects that impersonal and fragmented culture. We invite stakeholder to advance a person-centered healthcare culture in our country.
COVID-19 underscores PDPM advantages
By
Bent Philipson
Jan 27, 2021
The efficacy of the Patient-Driven Payment Model has never been clearer than now, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. PDPM enabled skilled nursing facilities to see a 9% increase in Medicare reimbursement...
Build it and they will stay: Creating job satisfaction for CNAs
By
Heidi Hendrix
Sep 09, 2019
Let’s be honest. The fundamental reason for a job or occupation is to provide financial income for ourselves and our families. This may answer the question, “Why do I have a job?” However,...
Three reasons your SNF should sign up for CMS’s BPCI Advanced Program
By
Gene Huang
Nov 01, 2017
BPCI Advanced, or the next iteration of CMS’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative, is coming. Despite the recent shake-ups at HHS, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that enroll in the...
Nurses Year, Nurses Week, Nurses Day: How do we say thank you?
By
Martie Moore
May 07, 2021
The Year of the Nurse, designated by the World Health Organization and others, was to be 2020. But in 2020, nurses were too busy fighting a battle with an invisible enemy to acknowledge, “The Year of...