The team leaders who nominate their physician leaders for the Society Medical Director of the Year always speak with such passion and pride. They share stories of how their medical directors have implemented programs and initiatives that maximize...
ORLANDO — End-of-life care and wishes often are the elephant in the room for elders and their loved ones. Even many practitioners avoid these topics. But at the annual meeting of the Florida Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine late...
I knew January’s “On My Mind” column (“Dealing with the post-election blues”), with more of a partisan-political slant than usual, might get some responses — but I didn’t realize that it would strike such a nerve with some of our readers. I concede...
Imagine a patient comes into your facility who, on the surface, doesn’t seem unusual or challenging. Then you learn more about his spouse: She has called the state’s toll-free complaint line hundreds of times. Because of her behavior, her husband...
The Five-Star Quality Rating System was established in 2008 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and added to the Nursing Home Compare website to help consumers understand nursing home quality and “distinguish between high- and low-...
Elderly patients can be particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of excessive blood pressure (BP) lowering by antihypertensive treatment. The identification of hypotension is thus especially important. Ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) is a...
The Trump Administration took action to freeze regulations released by federal agencies through a memo issued by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on January 20, 2017. The memo states that agencies cannot release any new regulations or guidance...
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) MLN Matters Article on Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) Instructions is now available. The article gives instructions on how to use the MOON to inform Medicare beneficiaries when they...
On February 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded approximately $20 million to 11 organizations for the first year of a five-year program to provide on-the-ground training and education about the Quality Payment Program...
Health care systems throughout the world are challenged by the growing problem of multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of multiple chronic diseases or conditions in a single individual. Multimorbidity, which has been defined as the “most common chronic...
