Training, implementing, and sustaining behavioral protocols among frontline workers of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is challenging for a variety of reasons. Limited resources, competing demands, protocol complexity, lack of a champion,...
Infection prevention and control (IPC) audits are a recommended tool for reducing the burden of communicable diseases in long-term care homes (LTCHs).1,2 IPC audits are most effective when they integrate components of education, monitoring, and...
Limited data suggest nursing home (NH) Alzheimer's special care units (ASCUs) may improve care and outcomes among residents with dementia. Unfortunately, information describing NH characteristics related to presence of ASCUs is lacking, especially...
Maximizing quality of life (QoL) is the ultimate goal of long-term dementia care. However, routine QoL measurement is rare in nursing home (NH) and assisted living (AL) facilities. Routine QoL measurement might lead to improvements in resident QoL...
This study explored differences in COVID-19 incidence, mortality, and timing among long-term care facility (LTCF) residents and staff with those living in the community in South Carolina (SC).
In response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent action that authorizes an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine for immunocompromised individuals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is assuring people with Medicare...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a virtual “office hours” session on Thursday, August 19, 2021, from 1:00–2:30 PM ET to provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the Qualified Registry and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new web-based training course for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) that covers assessment and coding of K0200: Height and Weight and K0500: Nutritional Approaches.
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Flu season is fast approaching; and, as with COVID, we’re still learning how to prevent and treat this infection. Toward that end, a team of nationally recognized long-term care researchers are undertaking a large-...
