How should we manage SNF value-based purchasing measures to receive incentive payments?
Ask the Legal Expert … about emergency preparedness
By
Norris Cunningham
May 03, 2023
I understand that state surveyors will begin focusing more on emergency preparedness. Why so much attention on this issue now?
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...