Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

It is probably no surprise to you that your post-acute care (PAC) organization’s biggest asset is its employees. Except for long-term care hospitals, these facilities are often more home-like than acute ones, aiding patient recovery and comfort.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients.

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Relias

MAY 1, 2022

And although acute care hospitals report using strategies to prevent pressure injuries, those efforts are not always systematically applied to bring consistent results, according to a study of Veterans hospitals. Related Wound Care Liability Concerns.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2019

Those six segments are doctors, dentists, acute care, non-acute care (like long-term care and rehab), manufacturers, and other health care services. Amazon Business now serves 50% of the 100 largest hospital systems in the U.S.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 8 prescribers readying for launch May 4, 2024. Anticipate Post-Acute Cutover Cutover for post-acute care is a process through which key pieces of information about admitted patients are entered into Connect Care prior to launch.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Outpatient : Make sure that all clinic documentation is complete, signed and routed, while also taking care to close any charts still open in legacy systems. Long-term care (LTC) : Review orders entered into Connect Care for LTC residents to ensure accuracy of medication and non-medication orders.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

Outpatient : Make sure that all clinic documentation is complete, signed and routed, while also taking care to close any charts still open in legacy systems. Long-term care (LTC) : Review orders entered into Connect Care for LTC residents to ensure accuracy of medication and non-medication orders.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 9 prescribers readying for launch November 2, 2024. Anticipate Post-Acute Cutover Cutover for post-acute care is a process through which key pieces of information about admitted patients are entered into Connect Care prior to launch.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Each session will cover the same content, including Admission to Long-Term Care/Continuing Care, Offsite Dialysis Appointments, and Leave of Absence to Acute Care with Return. The week of March 11 –15 includes 1-hour Patient Movement Fundamentals readiness sessions, offered on three separate days.

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Relias

MARCH 1, 2023

A CarePort report found that more patients prefer to receive post-acute care at home instead of in nursing homes and SNFs. Reduce readmissions The CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces payments to acute care facilities with a high 30-day readmission rate.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Long‐term acute care hospitals. Short-term acute care hospitals. The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities. Home health agencies. Inpatient psychiatric facilities. Inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Partial hospitalization programs. Critical access hospitals.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. But occasionally circumstances may change such that it is no longer appropriate for the resident to continue to reside at the facility. 19 CSR 30-82.050(4)(B).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home. What factors must underpin this Holy Grail of care at home, or “anywhere?” Start with connectivity to the home and elsewhere by phone.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

Whether people are receiving care in the hospital, long-term care facilities, or at home, these seven steps can be implemented to prevent pressure injuries. You could even have a brainstorming session with caregivers about the best ways to knock out pressure sores for your population of clients.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 22, 2024

emergency department) Skilled nursing and long-term care facilities Hospices Retail clinics (e.g.,

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, the state of Washington began discharging some patients who would have previously had longer stays, instead recommending recovery at a post-acute care facility such as a skilled nursing facility or long-term care center. 7 – Reexamine COVID-19 protocols to clear staff members to return to work earlier.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are many opportunities for LPNs to work in acute care facilities; long term care facilities ,clinics, medical offices, schools and group homes dependent upon which state and neighborhood you reside in.

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Mildred Elley

AUGUST 8, 2022

There are many opportunities for LPNs to work in acute care facilities; long term care facilities ,clinics, medical offices, schools and group homes dependent upon which state and neighborhood you reside in.

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Relias

JULY 13, 2023

Older adults in healthcare settings and long-term care facilities are more likely to have a behavioral health disorder than those who live in the community, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Relias

MAY 22, 2023

One of the most challenging tasks that caregivers for people living with dementia face is understanding certain behaviors and needs. Toxic changes in the brain destroy neurons and affect the behavior and emotional state of the person living with the disease.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Building wound care expertise and maximizing your organization’s reimbursements through the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is now more essential than ever. In April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a $320 million decrease in Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities for fiscal year 2023.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

Some 600,000 physicians provide care to people in the U.S. health care — fragmentation between public health and acute care, inadequate health IT and information exchange, and lack of effective emergency response planning and coordination. in nearly 4,000 hospitals that operate 600,000 inpatient beds.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

In direct response to the significant challenges experienced by long term care (LTC) facilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration announced its commitment to improving safety and quality of care. Background .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Relias

JANUARY 16, 2023

From the growth of home-based care and telehealth to regulation changes, post-acute care leaders need to be aware of this year’s industry trends. Home-based care is growing. Value-based care is growing. Here are six to watch and prepare for as 2023 unfolds. Here are the top five responses: 72.1% gave pay raises.

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Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

New requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in November 2021 and a new time-limited enforcement effort by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced in March call for focused inspections and put a higher level of scrutiny on nursing home compliance and the quality of care provided.

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Expanding the Nursing Workforce : Over $19 million has been allocated over four years to five schools, including two community colleges, to boost the nursing workforce in acute care and long-term care settings.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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Scrubs

JULY 16, 2024

Just setting a number doesn’t mean anything if you’re not going to enforce it,” said Mark Miller, former president of the national organization of long-term care ombudsmen, advocates in each state who help residents resolve problems in their nursing homes. We’re seeing the collapse of post-acute care in America,” Gamache said.

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