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CMS Issues Updates to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care for Long-Term Care Residents

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued updates to its guidance on the minimum health and safety standards that long-term care (LTC) facilities must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. CMS also updated and...

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Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
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Thinking About a Career in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care? Consider this Advice

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
We asked the Caring for the Ages Editorial Advisory Board to answer this question:

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Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
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Can Ignorance Be Bliss?

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
Back in the 1980s, when Studio 54 was in its heyday, I taught high school science in New York City for a few years. Having graduated from a large public high school myself in a suburb of Cleveland, living in Manhattan in the early ’80s was a culture...

Behavioral Health Integration and Training — A Model to Extend the Reach of Psychiatry

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
A majority (60% to 80%) of nursing home residents have one or more psychiatric diagnoses, including dementia (Med Care Res Rev 2010;67:627–656). And post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) residents take an astonishing number of psychoactive...

The Explosive Growth of Telehealth Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
Telehealth use in the United States has increased by over 6,000% since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Medicare telehealth visits alone have increased by 63-fold, from 840,000 in 2019, to 52.7 million in 2020 alone, as discussed by a Department...

Durable Medical Equipment, Pharmaceutical, and Practitioner Connections: A Formula for Better Delivery of Care

Caring for the Ages
August 1, 2022
An important way the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care (PALTC) Medicine advances its mission is by embracing and nurturing collaborative partnerships between practitioners and industry partners, both striving for better care for the...

Pressure Injury on Poststroke Admission Assessment to Skilled Nursing Facilities: Risk Factors, Management, and Impact on Rehabilitation

JAMDA
July 31, 2022
To describe pressure injury (PrI) prevalence, comorbidities, and rehabilitation utilization among older adults with stroke at skilled nursing facilities’ (SNFs’) admission assessment.

MQIHA-ECHO: An Innovative Private-Public Partnership to Improve Quality Outcomes in Post-Acute Facilities

JAMDA
July 31, 2022
We are writing to report on an innovative private-public partnership to improve outcomes in post-acute facilities. We collaborated in a novel partnership between Project ECHO (Extensions for Community Health Outcomes), state agencies, and managed...