Post-Acute Care

Rates of anticoagulation therapy were higher for patients whose main reason for acute-care admission was Afib, yet only 50% of those patients initiated use.

Despite caring for a sicker patient population and higher staff turnover, skilled nursing facilities provided post-acute rehabilitation services with only a modest decline in intensity, investigators say.

Researchers have found a 38% rate of documented cognitive screening across post-acute care settings and therapy disciplines. Standardized assessments are rarely documented, they say.

Patients who start a deprescribing intervention before their post-acute care admission have fewer medications at discharge and at a 90-day follow-up than their peers with usual care, researchers report.

Staff competence and professionalism lend confidence that restored health and independence are in sight, patients told investigators.

A new initiative that includes skilled nursing facilities aims to improve post-acute stroke care starting in Montana, Nebraska and North Dakota.

Increased healthcare use, including long-term care stays, begins two months after a patient tests positive for SARS-CoV-2, data analysis shows.

Providing early care for pressure injuries during stroke rehab may help improve patients’ clinical outcomes and reduce associated costs, investigators say.

Policy changes are needed to help to improve older adults’ recovery rates in the skilled nursing facility population, according to a call for regulatory reform published Tuesday.

“What’s next?” That’s the question countless patients have faced as they have been discharged from hospitals in the midst of this once-in-a-century crisis.  They have each faced what we’ve...