by Beth Reigart | Oct 18, 2018 | Clinical, Culture, Featured, Uncategorized
Erica Holt graduated from college with a degree as an occupational therapy assistant degree knowing she wanted to make a difference in long term care. After several years working as a staff clinician, she wanted to learn about operational and clinical management. At...
by Beth Reigart | Oct 9, 2018 | Culture, Featured, Marketing
McKnight’s Long Term Care News just release a wonderful article on a free VR dementia course geared to promote empathy. Relias has released “A Day in the Life of Henry: A Dementia Experience” (https://preview.relias.com/Library/Demo/2017/VR/story_html5.html?lms=1) to...
by Beth Reigart | Sep 27, 2018 | Clinical, Compliance, Featured
On July 31, 2018, CMS released the SNF-PPS Final Rule which will establish the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) for Medicare Part A reimbursement effective October 1 2019. This new reimbursement system will base payment on the resident’s medical diagnostic...
by Beth Reigart | Sep 25, 2018 | Clinical, Compliance, Featured
Beginning October 1, 2018, CMS will implement changes to the assessment-based quality measures (Section GG). This section of the MDS will continue be entered on the initial and final assessments. The data will allow functional outcomes to be measured as a part of...
by Gina Tomcsik | Mar 14, 2018 | Clinical, Compliance, Featured
Working in Silos: The Three Lives of a Cancer Patient This is a story of an extremely active seventy-year-old man who was diagnosed with tonsil cancer that produced a tumor in his neck. This man volunteers 40 hours a week every week, for the past six years at the...
by Karen McElroy | Feb 26, 2018 | Clinical, Compliance, Featured
Several of our clinical teams recently experienced something new…CMS representatives arrived at their facility to assess compliance with a new initiative Patients Over Paperwork. In preparation for this process, review the following information, taken directly from...
