Webcast to focus on facility-acquired infections, hospital readmissions
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McKnight's Staff
May 01, 2012
Long-term care providers continually struggle with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). They can find answers to the challenge at a McKnight’s no-cost webcast at 1 p.m. (Eastern) June 20. During...
May 22 webcast to study Medicare readmissions policies: implications for hospitals and post-acute providers
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 30, 2012
Providers who don’t fully understand hospital readmissions issues, or who continue to do business “as usual,” will be penalized in the near future. At a free McKnight’s webcast...
Improving care for cognitively impaired residents the focus of April 24 McKnight’s webcast
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 10, 2012
Providers can learn how to better handle one of their most challenging caregiving categories — cognitively impaired residents — by tuning in to a free McKnight’s webcast April 24.
Reducing hospitable readmissions — a SNF opportunity
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 01, 2012
The next McKnight’s professional webcast will focus on one of the hottest issues raging in long-term care, and healthcare in general: reducing hospital readmissions. Andrew Kramer, MD, a professor...
Staffing Best Practices: A Successful Executive’s Perspective
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McKnight's Staff
Feb 28, 2012
How can long-term care operators provide consistent, quality care under today’s cost pressures? Attendees at this special McKnight’s webcast will learn one big reason when Holland Management...
Proactive staffing strategies to battle Medicare and Medicaid challenges the focus of McKnight’s...
Nov 03, 2011
Providers will get frontline advice on how to drive efficiencies, control labor costs and build revenue in the face of looming Medicare and Medicaid funding struggles at a free McKnight’s webcast...
MDS 3.0 webcast: The first week with changes … what do we do now?
Oct 06, 2011
Nursing home administrators must be absolutely certain their billing department staff and MDS coordinators are up to speed on the newly implemented PPS rules for therapy. That is one of the central messages...
Pssssst! Have we got a deal for you!
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James M. Berklan
Mar 10, 2011
We might have just been subjected to the biggest dose of chutzpah seen in a long, long while. It smacked of the old image of the leering used-car salesman (sorry, used car sales people) rubbing his thumb...
McKnight’s to offer webcast on safe patient handling
Jan 15, 2010
A McKnight’s webcast on safe patient handling practices will be held in February.