The pressure has been mounting for skilled nursing facilities to prevent avoidable hospitalizations, and a statistic from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explains why. According to CMS, among Medicare-Medicaid enrollees in...
The Year in Review keynote address during the opening general session of the annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine stood out as a source of clinical insight applicable across a broad range of conditions...
The Howard Guterman Best Poster Award was presented at the 2019 annual conference of AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine to a research team led by Tiffany Rose, NP. At the conference, Ms. Rose, a nurse practitioner from...
July is almost here, the month that begins the medical year. July 1 is the day the new interns start their rotations at the hospital, perhaps not the best time to be in the hospital if you can avoid it. It’s also the day my mother died in a local (...
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) will take effect on October 1, 2019. This not only represents a major change in how skilled nursing facilities are reimbursed; it also will significantly impact the dynamic between clinicians and the...
Increasing numbers of patients are referred to skilled nursing facilities, or SNFs, following discharge from the hospital. A new model, however, can help predict as early as the day of admission which patients are likely to require discharge to a...
Mrs. G is an 80-year-old white female who has lived in assisted living for several years. She scores 24 on the Saint Louis University Mental Survey (SLUMS), indicating that she has some mild cognitive impairment, and she is independent with bathing...
