Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with an increased risk for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in both middle-aged and older individuals. Brief cognitive tests can potentially serve as a reliable and cost effective approach to...
Despite high rates of hip fracture among United States (US) nursing home (NH) residents, little is known about geographic variation in hip fracture incidence. We used nationally representative data to identify geographic variation in hip fracture...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with an increased risk for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in both middle-aged and older individuals. Brief cognitive tests can potentially serve as a reliable and cost effective approach to...
Scott Hanson, DO, wasn’t thinking about creating an award-winning poster when he started examining the use of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapies in his facility. He was seeking to improve care and prevent avoidable hospitalization. Not only...
The 2016 edition of The Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on Local Health System Performance assesses the state of health care in more than 300 U.S. communities from 2011 through 2014, a period when the Affordable Care Act was being implemented across...
An audio recording and transcript are available for the July 7 call on Quality Measures and the IMPACT Act . CMS experts discuss key quality measures related to the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) and how...
Electronic submission of staffing data through the Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) is required of all long-term care facilities in 2016. July 1 began the first date of data collection. You will have up to 45 days to submit data from July 1, 2016-...
Spotlight: Question Leads to Poster, Poster Leads to Top Honor HPA: Commonwealth Fund Scorecard Shows Improvements in Nursing Homes, IMPACT Act Call: Recording and Transcript Now Available from CMS, PBJ Reporting Has Begun UPDATE - Multistate...
