GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Thriving meshes well with excellent clinical care, according to Eleanor McConnell, PhD, associate professor and director of the Geriatric Nursing Center of Excellence at the Duke University School of Nursing.
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — The competition among the four finalists was fierce, but in the end two sharks emerged victorious from a yearlong battle of innovation staged by AMDA — the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s Innovation Workgroup...
This week the Society took a significant step forwarding to addressing one its key strategic objectives by applying for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) MACRA quality measure funding opportunity. Earlier this year CMS issued...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a request for information (RFI) asking for input on direct provider contracting (DPC) between payers and primary care or multi-specialty groups to inform potential testing of a...
Congressmen Joe Courtney (D-CT), Glenn 'GT' Thompson (R-PA) and Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have co-sponsored legislation to fix an arbitrary Medicare policy that excludes...
The Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) contains summarized information on Part B services and procedures furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by physicians and other healthcare professionals. The 2016 dataset includes: Information on...
To define the prevalence of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in community-dwelling older persons with dementia, using V-VST (Volume-Viscosity Swallow Test), the reference clinical screening test for swallowing disorders, to assess the feasibility of the...
In this issue appears a paper titled “Association of Polypharmacy With 1-Year Trajectories of Cognitive and Physical Function in Nursing Home Residents: Results From a Multicentre European Study.” The authors defined polypharmacy by medication count...
Dietary protein intake is inversely associated with physical frailty risk. However, it is unknown whether an association exists between dietary protein intake and comprehensive frailty.
