On October 1, 2019, the new Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is replacing Resource Utilization Group, Version IV (RUG-IV) for the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS). There will be a call about it on Tuesday, December...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join In early March, Society President Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD, will head to Atlanta, GA, for the 2019 annual conference . She would happily make the trip even without the title, and it all goes back to the vivid...
The notion of fear of falling (FOF), originally named “ptophobia”1 and presented for the first time in 1982, is defined as an association of psychobehavioral symptoms such as anxiety and fear of recurrent falling leading to an inability to walk...
Long-term care (LTC) homes expressed concern that patients had experienced medication incidents after hospital discharge as a result of poor coordination of care.
