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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. However, aging service facilities need more staffing to meet regulatory and quality of care standards.

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PEPPER Report: Target areas for rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

In 2012, the Office of Inspector General found that approximately 25% of SNF claims were billed in error. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Pediatric Hospice, Respite Program Combatting Financial Challenges

Hospice News

Sarah Houses board helped to write state legislation aimed at improving support for pediatric respite and end-of-life care. Sarahs Law passed in 2012 as part of Ohios state operating budget and established billing codes for facilities operated by a licensed pediatric respite care program.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. Scott: You can’t say you, Alex Smith, are prohibited from getting palliative care.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. But at the same time, we’re saving a lot of moral distress of the long term care staff in terms of having to bear watching people not have thirst needs addressed.

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