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Leadership, Staff Empowerment, and the Retention of Nursing Assistants: Findings From a Survey of U.S. Nursing Homes

JAMDA
March 17, 2020
We examined the relationship between nursing assistant (NA) retention and a measure capturing nursing home leadership and staff empowerment.

March 15, 2020

Weekly Roundup
March 15, 2020
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Long-Term Care Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Practical Guidelines for a Population at Highest Risk

JAMDA
March 13, 2020
COVID-19, the abbreviated name for the coronavirus disease 2019, has quickly drawn the attention of worldwide media, public health officials, health care providers, and a worried public. Since its identification in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019...

Reducing the Burden of Complex Medication Regimens: SImplification of Medications Prescribed to Long-tErm care Residents (SIMPLER) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

JAMDA
March 13, 2020
To assess the application of a structured process to consolidate the number of medication administration times for residents of aged care facilities.

Atrial Fibrillation in Older Patients with Syncope and Dementia: Insights from the Syncope and Dementia Registry

JAMDA
March 13, 2020
To evaluate the clinical characteristics and the long-term outcome of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with dementia and history of syncope or falls.

Podcast Tracks the Palliative Care Journey

Spotlight
March 12, 2020
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “There is a lot of literature on the timing of palliative care, yet there is an ongoing lack of understanding of what palliative care is by patients, families, providers, post-acute care settings, and home health...

Society Advocates to Immediately Lift Nursing Facility Restrictions on Telehealth Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Telemedicine
March 12, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic Congress and the administration took action to expand the use of telehealth to help mitigate the spread of the virus. In a press release on March 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) led with...

CMS Sends More Detailed Guidance to Providers on COVID-19

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Telemedicine
March 12, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to issue guidance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency: Issued guidance for hospice and nursing homes to protect staff and vulnerable patients . There is also separate hospice...

Legislation to Address Telehealth in SNFs Introduced In Congress

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners, Telemedicine
March 12, 2020
Last week, Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), members of the Senate Finance Committee, and Reps. Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Ann Kuster (D-NH) introduced companion versions of the Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of...

Quality Payment Program: MIPS 2019 Data Submission Deadline March 31

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Practitioners
March 12, 2020
The data submission deadline for Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians who participated in the 2019 performance period of the Quality Payment Program is March 31 at 8 PM ET. Note: The data submission period for accountable...