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Aphasia awareness: Promoting an abilities-based approach to stroke rehabilitation

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

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. For further inquiries, she can be contacted here. Have a column idea? See our submission guidelines here.

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The skill of knowing the basics

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Furthermore, services that do not require the performance or supervision of a therapist are not skilled and are not considered reasonable or necessary therapy services, even if they are performed or supervised by a qualified professional. How does this impact skill? What about diagnosis or condition?

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Reason for referral: Documentation tips for therapists

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. How many times have we all heard those words? For further inquiries, she can be contacted here.

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Therapists, take note! Proposed changes to ICD-10 mapping

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

These are some positive steps to ensuring care and reimbursement align with patient needs, evidence-based practice and the unique level of skilled care you provide daily. In closing, changes are coming. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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When the goal is to maintain

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Answer: Since maintenance services are considered skilled care, the patient must meet the setting-specific qualifying criteria outlined in the law, regulations, and Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. Question: What qualifies a patient for therapist-provided maintenance services under the Medicare benefit?

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Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients at Home With Memory Care

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Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Skilled care: As the disease progresses, many times patients need skilled nursing care to perform wound care, physical therapy, injections, and/or the administration of drugs.

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What your therapy team should know about the CMS REACH Model

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We also know that our skilled care, its impacts and the patients’ ability to maintain functional abilities extends well beyond the time during which direct care provision is provided. They feel supported. The rehab is never just about therapy alone. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.