The creators of a new automated hospital transfer form say they have identified the five must-have pieces of information needed to reduce clinical complications when nursing home residents are brought to the emergency department.
Providers must resume giving advance notice about resident transfers, discharges, and room and roommate changes after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ended emergency blanket waivers for the rules that were established due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eldercare experts have published a comprehensive guideline on safe and effective hospital transfers for residents.
No approval is needed for transferring or discharging residents between facilities for certain cohorting purposes, the agency says.
The very old may feel more in control of their lives if they consider a move to a long-term care or senior living community
– before a health crisis hits, gerontologists report.
The family of a woman who died after falling while being transferred with a lift is suing her former nursing home for nearly $2.5 million.
Long-term care facilities with safe resident handling training programs have significantly lower rates of caregiver injuries than facilities without such programs, new research finds. Facilities with safe resident handling programs are also more attractive to potential employees, according to the vendor-backed study.
