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Opportunities for Collaboration: Refining Postoperative Readmission Risk for Skilled Nursing Facility Patients

JAMDA
September 1, 2019
Post-acute and long-term care providers (both physicians and advanced practice providers) depend on well-executed hospital discharge plans. This is due to concerns about patient safety as well as ensuring our ability to deliver prompt, high-level...

Encouraging the Use of Research to Guide Practice and Policy

JAMDA
September 1, 2019
We're living in an era in which the credibility of scientific evidence is sometimes challenged—think climate change1—and important research findings don't always impact practice and policy. Regarding the latter point, it remains common to hear...

Sarcopenia: Performance of the SARC-F Questionnaire According to the European Consensus Criteria, EWGSOP1 and EWGSOP2

JAMDA
September 1, 2019
Sarcopenia is a major public health problem, and recognized as a disease with its own International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) code assigned in 2016.1 The total number of people affected by...

September 1, 2019

Weekly Roundup
September 1, 2019
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Assisting living (AL) is a true force in senior care, but it looks very different from the social model it started as 30-some years ago. Today, there are nearly 29,000 AL facilities in the country, with over half...

CMS Offers New Details on Approach to Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
August 30, 2019
As a way of providing more details on the five-part strategy the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking to ensure safety and quality in nursing homes, CMS Administrator Seema Verma has begun a blog series offering more details...

Learn More about CMS’ Proposed MIPS Value Pathways

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management, Practitioners
August 30, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a proposed rule outlining changes in the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The rule contains a request for information (RFI) on ways to simplify the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...

Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences Call September 10

Policy Snapshot
Dementia, Practitioners
August 30, 2019
The Medicare Learning Network is hosting a call on September 10 from 1:30 to 3:00 PM ET, Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences. During this call, you’ll be able to gain insight on approaches to care for residents living with...

SNF PPS: Patient Driven Payment Model Videos

Policy Snapshot
Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), Skilled Nursing Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practitioners
August 30, 2019
On October 1, the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is replacing the Resource Utilization Group, Version IV (RUG-IV) for the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS). CMS has videos to help you prepare: PDPM: What Is...

The Temporal Trend in the Transfer of Older Adults to the Emergency Department for Traumatic Injuries: A Retrospective Analysis According to Their Place of Residence

JAMDA
August 30, 2019
There has been an increase in the number of visits by older individuals to emergency departments (EDs). The primary cause of this is trauma. The objective of this study was to evaluate the temporal changes in the use of EDs by older individuals for...

Effectiveness of Hip Protectors to Reduce Risk for Hip Fracture from Falls in Long-Term Care

JAMDA
August 30, 2019
To generate evidence of the effectiveness of hip protectors to minimize risk of hip fracture at the time of falling among residents of long-term care (LTC) by contrasting rates of hip fractures between falls with and without hip protectors.