While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
CMS: Schedule up in the air for new RCS-1 therapy classification system
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 09, 2018
A replacement payment system pitched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid last spring is no closer to being finalized or implemented, officials said during an Open Door Forum conference call Thursday.
McKnight’s Technology Awards highlight innovation, dedication and quality of care
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Elizabeth Newman
Dec 06, 2017
Whether it was reducing hospital readmissions or better tracking of incontinence, striking use of technology to improve resident care characterized the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards...
What’s on LTC’s ‘to-don’t’ list?
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Oct 18, 2017
My main takeaway from a key speech Monday is likely something that hit home for others in the audience as well: we should focus less on what we should be doing, and more on what we shouldn’t.
Room for improvement
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2016
Therapists and nursing homes are still looking for reimbursement — and clarity — 4 years after the landmark Jimmo settlement set the caregiving community abuzz.
Social media video for SNFs created
Mar 29, 2016
Harmony Healthcare International has created a social media video for skilled nursing facilities.
How to do it… be ‘up’ on IT
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John Hall
Mar 04, 2016
Information technology can be one of an administrator’s biggest and most intimidating challenges. This special How To article offers expert advice on how providers who don’t typically work...
A measure of success
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 04, 2016
Technology and analysis prepare skilled nursing facilities and their staffs for Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement programs — and vice versa
Not the ideal vision for taking care of business
By
James M. Berklan
May 08, 2015
Never mind the mantras about the long-term care profession being “high touch.” The focus has been hijacked and it appears most providers are now consumed by documentation.
Harmony Healthcare releases grid for Five-Star calculations
May 05, 2015
Harmony Healthcare International released a grid that it invented and combines all the rules for calculating a Five-Star Rating.