by Kaleb Roudabush | Apr 10, 2019 | Clinical, Culture, Featured, Wellness
Goal: To strengthen the muscles in the back of the leg called the hamstrings. Benefits: By strengthening your hamstrings, it can offset the muscle imbalances caused by strong thighs or quadriceps. It may reduce the cramping that often occurs when trying to use the...
by Kaleb Roudabush | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Marketing, Wellness
Goal: To stretch the latissimus dorsi muscle, quadratus lumborum and other para spinal muscles that aid in lateral flexion of the trunk. Make overhead reaching easier. Benefits: Tight muscles that run along the sides of our bodies can lead to back and shoulder pain....
by Gina Tomcsik | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, PDPM
Restorative nursing is important to your facility now and will be under the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) payment system. Ensuring that our residents have services to improve or maintain their functional abilities is imperative for resident outcomes and to...
by Lisa Chadwick | Mar 11, 2019 | Culture, Events, Featured
Patient safety should always be in the forefront of all caregivers’ mind, and, in fact drive how we provide care each and every day. Take falls for example, you should know that one of the most common and debilitating injuries which happens to healthy older people is...
by Gina Tomcsik | Mar 1, 2019 | Featured, PDPM
CMS has updated the patient classification FAQ on February 14, 2019. In this updated FAQ, CMS clarifies where the primary reason for the SNF stay will be coming from. It was previously noted that the ICD-10 code that reflects the reason for the SNF stay would pull...
by Kellie Buchanan | Feb 20, 2019 | Featured, PDPM
“I feel better prepared to get started on educating my building for PDPM” “The relationship between PDPM and reducing rehospitalization rates finally clicked for me during the training.” “It was evident that (the facilitators) all spent MANY hours preparing to make...
