Care workers in nursing homes cannot always carry out all necessary nursing interventions because of time constraints, lack of resources, or other organizational or personal factors. This failure is included within the concept of unfinished nursing...
Several authors suggest that circulating klotho, a single-pass transmembrane protein, could be associated with longevity.1–4 This study aimed to test the relationship between the level of plasma Klotho and mortality among a specific population of...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Jeffrey Levine, MD, CMD, has spent years studying wounds. He has worked in a wide array of environments from outpatient wound care clinics, hospitals, and post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities. Now,...
On October 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 1,299 entities have signed agreements with the agency to participate in the administration’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) – Advanced Model. The...
If you participated in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2017, your MIPS score and performance feedback are available on the Quality Payment Program website. The payment adjustment you will receive in 2019 will be based on your...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Jeffrey Levine, MD, CMD, has spent years studying wounds. He has worked in a wide array of environments from outpatient wound care clinics, hospitals, and post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) facilities. Now,...
To examine the potential added value of a simple 5-item questionnaire for sarcopenia screening (SARC-F) to the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) for hip fracture risk prediction, in order to identify at-risk older adults for screening with dual-...
Readmission after acute care is a significant contributor to health care costs, and has been proposed as a quality indicator. Our earlier studies showed that patients aged ≥55 years who are injured by falls from heights of ≤0.5 m were at increased...
After months of hearings and debate, the House and the Senate reached agreement this week on legislation to address the opioid epidemic. The House passed the legislation by a vote of 393 to 8 and the Senate by a vote of 99 to 1. The Senate then...
