New CMS chief stirs provider anticipation
Long-term care provider groups were complimentary of Seema Verma following her mid-March confirmation as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Long-term care provider groups were complimentary of Seema Verma following her mid-March confirmation as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“He (Board Chairman of the Reformed Church Home Reed Feuster) encourages me. He always makes a point to thank us and offer help. It’s kind of refreshing to get outside support. At the board level, it’s easy to say just what’s wrong or what you don’t like.”
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A medication reconciliation program may help reduce hospital emergency room readmissions by as much as 6%, a recent study shows.
Finally. That was my immediate, silent reaction when I received the email from a top long-term care provider.
As pesky questions about the future of healthcare swirl, let’s give thanks for the one, and maybe only, inviolate cog in the long-term care machinery that’s beyond the power of politicians to regulate or obliterate — kindness.
Skilled nursing occupancy rates hit their lowest level on record in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.
After winning a Bronze award in the McKnight’s Technology Awards for its custom-made interactive digital signage in 2014, Wingate Healthcare in Massachusetts recognized that it had a problem.
A new website that will allow consumers to view quality ratings for skilled nursing facilities is slated for release in October 2018, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said in late February.