Risk Management

As litigation continues to pose significant challenges for skilled nursing facilities, it becomes crucial for SNF leadership teams to proactively address the underlying factors that can lead to legal disputes. ...

Last month I wrote about risk. I shared that risk in a nursing home originates from many places: residents and families, federal and state regulators, vendors, payers, insurance companies, referral sources...

Skilled nursing and senior living liability losses have accelerated in both frequency and total cost since 2016, with per-incident costs rising nearly 12% per-year in that time period, a new national benchmarking...

We encounter risk every day. Risk is present in the most innocuous actions, like crossing the street, walking into the supermarket, and even eating dinner. And as nursing home operators and providers well...

Hackers have hit a major nursing home chain, potentially exposing a significant amount of patient and staff data in a brazen extortion attempt.

The senior care industry in the U.S. was under pressure before the pandemic. As 2022 and the third year of COVID’s influence approaches, it’s not easing up. A host of trends say the industry’s battering...

COVID-19 has shown just how precarious the situation in some long-term care facilities can be. During the first few months of the pandemic, many LTC providers were stuck trying to interpret mercurial public...

The purpose of a qualified risk management department in healthcare is to assess, monitor, and implement plans and policies in order to decrease their exposure. There are many areas that need to be addressed...

Gouverneur Health, a 295-bed skilled nursing facility, brought its average UTI rate to 2.13%, — lower than state and national benchmarks — and reduced its related care costs by 52% from the pre-intervention...

Older adults were more likely to either regain normal glucose regulation or to die during a six-year follow-up than to become diabetic, the researchers report.