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Navigating the World of Long-Term Care: A Guide for Nurses

Minority Nurse

In the vast and varied landscape of healthcare careers, long-term care is sometimes overlooked. What is Long-term Care? Long-term care (LTC) refers to a range of services to meet a person’s health or personal care needs for an extended period.

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A Day in the Life: Hospice Nurse  

Daily Nurse

No, I’ve done long-term care for most of my nursing career. In long-term care, I did a lot of end-of-life care, even though patients weren’t necessarily in hospice. However, there was a learning curve from long-term care to hospice. What are your greatest rewards in your work?

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Last week we as an industry saw RTI International release a report titled: CMS Report to Congress: Unified Payment for Medicare-Covered Post-Acute Care Analysis and Development of the Prototype Unified PAC Prospective Payment System Called for in the IMPACT Act. Is UPAC a new term to you? Let’s start with some background here.

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Understanding social determinants of health and rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

It also requires giving people access to understandable information and decision support tools to equip them and their families with the information to manage their health and wellness, navigate the full span of the health care delivery system, and make their own informed choices about care.

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Step by step, how a CPT® code becomes a code

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The CPT® Editorial Panel meets three times a year to review proposals, and this is where specialty societies such as ASHA, APTA and AOTA often present their case. Presenting data on the unique aspects of rehabilitation services to ensure they are accurately valued in comparison to other healthcare procedures. Have a column idea?

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No place like community: Discharge planning beyond the PHE

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Is the emergency contact information present and accessible? 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. What about travel?

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The specificity and care taken to create these lists must mean that without them, the kids are all sure to fail! To resolve this issue, the TEP was presented with multiple options including. The panelists expressed support of both the conceptual model presented and for further analysis. of 6) of 1.5″

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