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Empath Health, American Health Plans Launch ISNP Joint Venture

Hospice News

“As we’ve been developing this model and this expertise, what really piqued our interest about the ISNP program is that this is another value-based reimbursement program that focuses on taking care of the frail elderly and ensuring that they have access to full-life care.”

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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Giving thanks this National Home Care and Hospice Month

AlayaCare

In the course of awareness and appreciation, here are only a few eye-opening statistics that the National Association for Home Care and Hospice has broadcast this month: Home health providers travel an estimated 8 billion miles to deliver services to their patients.

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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

2020 – Included the voices of patients in performance measures by increasing the number and use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Performance Measures (PRO-PMs) on the CY 2020 list of measures under consideration. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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

GeriPal

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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Antipsychotic medication reduction and the severely mentally ill population

The World According to Dr. El

President Biden’s State of the Union address last week targeted several aspects of the long-term care industry, most of which have received more attention than his mention of reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications. Given the changes wrought by COVID-19 (i.e., Necessary, but insufficient.