Promising new practices and options are emerging for patients transitioning between emergency departments and skilled nursing facilities or nursing homes, such as averting ED use altogether by treating the patients in place, several speakers...
Few patients with heart failure receive palliative care, although their condition often warrants it and evidence suggests it’s helpful, a specialist in geriatrics and palliative medicine told an audience at the 2018 annual meeting of the American...
Post-acute patients diagnosed with a behavioral health disorder are more likely to enter low-quality nursing home facilities and less likely to enter high-quality facilities than those without the diagnosis, according to study results in the...
The Center to Advance Palliative Care, in collaboration with the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, has launched an initiative to build a comprehensive inventory of community palliative care programs across all service settings —...
It’s been a good 6 years since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started wielding the stick called HRRP, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, designed to encourage hospitals to improve discharge planning and reduce unnecessary...
A collaborative quality improvement (QI) project to improve pain management for nursing home residents is changing outcomes through facility-specific interventions, ranging from changes in health records and electronic documentation to more...
As post-acute and long-term care medicine continues its move from traditional fee-for-service to value-based medicine, the business of PALTC has become everyone’s business. Increasingly, providers see specialty care units or programs — from wound...
There is little epidemiologic evidence considering the combined effect of dynapenia and low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] on incident disability. Our aim was to investigate whether the combination of dynapenia and low 25 (OH) D serum levels...
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