Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JULY 21, 2022

Post-acute care (PAC) represents an important component of the healthcare delivery system in the United States, with the Medicare fee-for-service program spending more than $57 billion on these services in 2019 (The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), 2021a). UPAC is associated with aims from IMPACT. These include: Figure ES-1.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 8, 2023

Furthermore, as aphasia is by definition a disorder impacting communication, they provide helpful guidance for family members, loved ones and care teams on best practices to improve interactions with someone who has aphasia. Robert Giroux The National Aphasia Association has declared June as National Aphasia Awareness Month.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Research shows] that operationalizing person-centered care in a long-term care facility resulted in less staff burnout, lower turnover, and a greater job satisfaction,” she says. Your software can definitely help with that.” Have you built your assessment in ways that they can help guide the discussion?

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2023

The move to temporarily halt services was in response to rising inpatient volumes amid the inability to transfer patients to long-term care facilities during the pandemic, the hospice provider indicated in local news. Trinity Health signed a definitive agreement with CommonSpirit Health to acquire MercyOne.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Let’s start with some definitions and guidance from Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 – Covered Medical and Other Health Services. We are clinicians, after all, who provide care to complex patients daily so how about we start there!

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AlayaCare

JUNE 30, 2019

A working group on home care forms. Federal, provincial and territorial officials set course in 1974 with a working group on home care. This group helped identify the need to compare definitions and data, to share outcomes and best practices, and to implant home care into the broader continuum of care.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 1, 2022

She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com 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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Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2023

Hospice mirrored the bigger picture, and it definitely fell off. Our best information indicates that Agape Hospice Care did four, and St. Agencies are now dealing with a very fluid labor pool, competing with other types of providers like hospitals, home health agencies and long-term care providers.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Therapy services in connection with a maintenance program are considered skilled when they are so inherently complex that they can be safely and effectively performed only by or under the supervision of a qualified therapist (see 42CFR 409.32) So how does the definition of rehab therapy differ from maintenance therapy?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Home (ˈhōm) has many definitions: one’s place of residence; the social unit formed by a family living together a familiar or usual setting; congenial environment; the focus of one’s domestic attention; or a place of origin. Home, what does it mean to you? She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 25, 2024

Let’s begin with some definitions. The “Universal Foundation” further aligns quality measures and will focus on provider attention, reduce burden, identify disparities in care, prioritize the development of interoperable, digital quality measures, allow for cross-comparisons across programs, and help identify measurement gaps.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 4, 2024

I would like to take the opportunity with this year’s first Rehab Realities to break down this guidance into three key areas: Regulatory oversight, definitions and use. Can you direct me to some definitions? Let’s begin, as we often do, with the rules. What are the rules? Who creates the rules? How and what is AI? Have a column idea?

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Caregiver Support Services

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

This memory-like game will challenge your team to match the standard cards with their definition. Write down the definition of each standard on separate cards. Label the back of each card “Definition.”. Shuffle the cards and deal an equal number of standards and their definition cards face down to each team.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 26, 2022

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. How are these areas defined and what are the suggested interventions? She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Stage five: From long-term care to trauma The children are getting older. I became a staff nurse in the ortho-trauma unit caring for patients with gunshot wounds, broken limbs in traction, and all manner of trauma. I have to admit it was challenging, having spent most of my career in long-term care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. And I think we see that all the time in folks having dementia.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The peeling process is much like the layers of patient complexity rehab professionals must strip away daily, essential for providing the highest level of quality patient care and supporting a health literate culture. Let’s begin with a definition of health literacy. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2022

These broad definitions, however, do not capture the vast array of a nurse’s responsibilities and the talents they require. Long-term care facilities. Provide advice and emotional support to patients and their families. Their talents are why nurses are highly sought after for a variety of settings.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay. The care at home industry is also the only environment where long-term care providers are expected to deliver care to all their patients between the hours of 9 a.m.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. Eric 09:14 And how would you define unrepresented?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And I think we have to be careful about painting it all with one brush, because there are definitely some very good organizations out there that are doing well. So, we do need to be careful not to disparage a whole industry just because it’s got some inherent problems that are inherent. So, all this was done in Toronto.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: But definitely gabapentin is one of those drugs that just has all of these off-label uses associated with it. Donovan No, we definitely don’t sing. Eric: And we should definitely get back together soon.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

I think that for me, it seems like an argument of extremes where people definitely wanted to consider it, oftentimes I think because they were angry that people weren’t being vaccinated and then wanted access to resources. Emily: Yeah. I’d actually echo that. So they probably know something that we don’t. Govind: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

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. The definition of capacity in ethics and medicine, law. I think that Advanced Dementia Fest 7A and beyond that is by definition end stage.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Linda Leekly ( 14:08 ): From what I’m hearing then going viral is definitely not the goal, right? And so therefore, in my definition, he is an influencer. Nick Bonitatibus ( 50:07 ): Another one of my clients, they wanted to be known for long-term care insurance. They’re like, yeah, I hate traffic too.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I think for a person in long-term care who has mild to moderate dementia, a POLST is part of the care plan because these are decisions that are likely to need to be made in the setting of the current illness. Eric: Sean, how would you think about, did you see Alex’s Venn diagram? Sean: I did, I did.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Let them have this one piece of joy left, which is their opioid use disorder”, which, by definition, is not bringing them joy, right? Devon: And Katie, that’s true of residential treatment centers, too. Katie: Absolutely. Katie: Yep.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Furthermore, culture, cultural awareness and cultural competence are collectively listed a total of 125 times in the 861 pages of the updated State Operations Manual Appendix PP -Guidance to Surveyors for Long Term Care Facilities, (Rev. First, let’s start with some definitions. 208, 10-21-22).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

And Medicaid doesn’t pay enough to pay for long-term care. Ruth: People, society, those that need nursing home care, need to speak up and say, “This isn’t right. Caroline: Through our pilot work, we’ve definitely been able to demonstrate that it’s acceptable, feasible.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Stepped-wedge is… It’s easier with a visual, but it simply means, at its core with two groups, that every hospital in our case starts in routine care or whatever the usual care definition is and will ultimately, in a randomized fashion, transition to adopt the intervention in steps, meaning over time.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

You know, someone who doesn’t have a primary care physician who’s resistant to care, resistant to, you know, an in-home physician that, you know, our hands are tied there. Laura Coyle ( 15:00 ): That definitely puts them at, at a higher risk. Is there a negligence possibly?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And now I’m almost 90, so definitely I don’t need to do suffering. Louise 13:48 Definitely some thoughts, and I think slightly different for different people. She had forever said, let me go. I’m not brave. She was very clear. Like, I don’t want to suffer. I don’t need to do suffering. Anyway, I did.

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