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PY 2015 Medicare ACO Results

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Accountable Care Organization (ACO)
September 2, 2016
On August 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the 2015 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model that show physicians, hospitals, and...

SNF Quality Reporting Program CMS Webcast — September 14

Policy Snapshot
Care Settings/Types, Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
September 2, 2016
Wednesday, September 14 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. Learn about the reporting requirements for the new Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality...

National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI Call — September 15

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Transitions of Care
September 2, 2016
Thursday, September 15 from 1:30 to 3 pm ET To register or for more information, visit MLN Connects Event Registration . Space may be limited, register early. This call focuses on effective care transitions between long-term and acute care settings...

Labor Day Sale Honors Work in PALTC

Spotlight
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Transitions of Care
September 2, 2016
“The DON and the care team don’t have time to reinvent the wheel—to develop tools and educational programs that encompass the level of detail and depth of clinical evidence that our CPGs and other products provide. We do this work for them,” says...

How to Implement Traditional Chinese Medicine in Alzheimer Disease Prevention in Occidental Countries?

JAMDA
September 2, 2016
Dementia is a clinical syndrome caused by neurodegeneration including Alzheimer disease (AD). It has been estimated that dementia accounts for 11.2% of disability years in people older than 60 years, which is the individual and societal heavy burden...

Predicting Delirium in Older Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia

JAMDA
September 2, 2016
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), the leading infectious cause of hospitalization in older adults, often represents a life-changing event with long-term disabling sequelae.1 Delirium is frequent among older inpatients with CAP.2 Several mechanisms...

Comparing Public Quality Ratings for Accredited and Nonaccredited Nursing Homes

JAMDA
September 2, 2016
Compare quality ratings of accredited and nonaccredited nursing homes using the publicly available Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare data set.

A New Prognosis Score to Predict Mortality After Acute Pneumonia in Very Elderly Patients

JAMDA
September 2, 2016
Acute pneumonia (AP) induces an excess of mortality among the elderly. We evaluated the value of a new predictive biomarker index compared to usual prognosis scores for predicting in-hospital and 1-year mortalities in elderly inpatients with AP.

Frailty as a Major Factor in the Increased Risk of Death and Disability in Older People With Diabetes

JAMDA
September 2, 2016
To assess the role of frailty in predicting death and incident disability in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

September 2, 2016

Weekly Roundup
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Dementia, Transitions of Care
September 2, 2016
Spotlight: Labor Day Sale Honors PALTC Workers HPA: National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI Call — September 15