Minority Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Elder Care Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2022

IS IT TIME TO UPDATE YOUR ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS? Experts recommend updating your estate plan every three to five years—whether changing beneficiary designations or updating estate planning documents—to keep it relevant and legally enforceable.… … The post HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU UPDATE YOUR ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Monitoring claims submissions for their patients across all care settings is vital for hospices, as is educating referral partners and pharmacies about appropriate service billing for hospice patients, said Lund Person. Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Governments are increasingly turning to home care providers as a means of alleviating strapped hospital resources and a shortage of long-term care facilities. They also need to ensure that those who require care, even those with chronic conditions, are safe while at home. population.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Regular follow-ups with medical professionals and documenting changes in the patients condition ensure youre meeting their evolving needs effectively. Comfort Physical and emotional comfort remain priorities in palliative care. Control Palliative care helps loved ones retain a sense of control over their lives.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Oftentimes, we say the hospital, but the hospital also manages the home care and the long term care. Typically, that is somebody from the health care community who’s leading the charge and is the coordinator or the team. For example, who’s doing advanced care planning? Who is aware of it?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

“The level of Medicare audit activity has increased, with a particular focus on long stay hospice patients and hospice patients who reside in long-term care and [assisted living] facilities,” Young told Hospice News in an email. You’re assuming all their liabilities going back from the beginning of time,” Pekarkse said.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 14, 2024

If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. 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. How many times have we all heard those words?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For rehab teams, this harmony means embracing practices that both elevate care standards and ensure regulatory alignment, including: Quality as the foundation of compliance: Adhering to the highest professional standards in therapy services strengthens compliance by reducing errors, improving outcomes, and demonstrating value to payers.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 29, 2024

Just as vocabulary and grammar are foundational for students, precise language and documentation are crucial for us in demonstrating the skilled level of service we provide. The language we use in our documentation must reflect the intricate and specialized nature of the care we provide. I wholeheartedly agreed.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. I think it’s kind of multilayered and I think that one area in particular to intervene is patients going into long term care.

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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. Care planning needs to move [more] to the bedside, and that can be a cultural change,” she says.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Health care providers are giving really good patient-focused care, but we’re not doing what I like to call family-centered care. There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. What were your impressions of that document? It’s a beautiful document. They would be so afraid.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

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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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 27, 2025

Paperless Documentation Part of this approach also involves the development of paperless documentation. Care agencies are moving beyond conventional approaches to ensure that they operate more efficiently. For example, many companies are now using e-timesheets and EHRs.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The October 2019 industry shift to the Patient Driven Payment Model allowed all rehabilitation professionals the opportunity to document specific clinical characteristics about the patients we serve and directly tie those areas to reimbursement. Renee Kinder. Quite the shift, right? Knowledge is key here. Let’s begin with some basics on PDPM.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

How did these codes, the ones we use daily for documentation and billing, come into existence? Healthcare providers, professional societies, medical device manufacturers or other stakeholders might recognize the absence of a CPT® code for a particular service, making documentation and reimbursement difficult. Have a column idea?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 27, 2023

PEPPER reports, on the other hand, shouldn’t be viewed as an additional nuisance and should provide useful data for the entire interdisciplinary team to review to assess trending and develop strategies for supplemental review of documentation. What Is PEPPER? Ready to download your reports?

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Governments are increasingly turning to home care providers as a means of alleviating strapped hospital resources and a shortage of long-term care facilities. They also need to ensure that those who require care, even those with chronic conditions, are safe while at home. population.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As you read below, I also want you to consider: Does the care you provide daily evidence complexity in the interventions you use and the documentation you complete. CERTIFICATION is the physician’s/non-physician practitioner’s (NPP) approval of the plan of care. Now on to complexities. Now, on to intervention.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

When investigating falls or other adverse events, teams can use RCA to dig deeper into why the incident happened rather than just documenting what occurred. 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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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So, we do need to be careful not to disparage a whole industry just because it’s got some inherent problems that are inherent. I was about to say with our system of long-term care, but we do not have a system of long-term care. Eric: Sheryl, can I take a step back? I see no harm in that.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. Could some of this burden be shifted to clients, enabling them to take greater control of self-managing their care? data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 25, 2018

Currently, we primarily use it for scheduling, documentation, planning, and billing. We’re able to track their progress, attach relevant documents and create customized reports, all in one file. We’re able to track their progress, attach relevant documents and create customized reports, all in one file. It’s very user-friendly.

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Hope Hospice

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Hope Hospice offers a monthly Family Caregiver Education Series for just this purpose, and several of the classes are focused on dementia care. It is of the utmost importance that you review your legacy documents (such as a will/trust) while you are still well. Make a Care Plan. Get Your Affairs In Order. What is Sundowing?

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. With the right tools and support, many clients can themselves be responsible for some documentation. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Youll need specific documentation to complete this process, including proof of good standing, formalizing the move in the new state, and ending operations in the previous state. If your business is a limited liability company, its important to understand how to transfer an LLC to another state to remain compliant with legal requirements.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. What documentation is required before sending the notice of discharge? If a facility determines that it must involuntarily discharge a resident, the facility must first determine the level of documentation required. 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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AlayaCare

MAY 20, 2020

Here is what we are seeing, hearing about, and talking about (in a recent webinar): Surging demand for home care : Despite the initial drop, we’re now seeing a resurgence of The reasons are many. One: the serious outbreaks at long-term care facilities are prompting family members to move their loved ones out and into home-based settings.

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Elder Care Matters

JULY 19, 2022

Comprehensive estate plans that are routinely updated, careful consideration and documentation of… The post Tips for Preventing Probate Litigation appeared first on Elder Care Directory - ElderCareMatters.com.

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Home With Help

APRIL 1, 2025

Do You Have Legal and Financial Documents in Order? Its critical to know if your parents have legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and healthcare proxy. These documents protect their rights and ensure their decisions are honored. Do they have long-term care insurance?

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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. And so I think of it as more like the patient who’s on document dialysis, who. Alex 12:41 We should say for our listeners too.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 24, 2023

Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree. My first challenge was an interview with a dean who described my community in terms of its racial breakdown and said that at least I was “a step above the statistics” because I had a bachelor’s degree.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For example, one of the issues nursing informatics experts are looking into today is the burden of documentation — whether nurses are having to document too much information and how to optimize the process. There still is job growth,” Newbold said. “I

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Eric 12:10 One theme that came out of that, just looking at the responses to your article, was there’s more to goals of care discussions than code status. There’s more to it that you should be documenting than DNR DNI, which seems like. Yeah, probably most of our listeners would agree with that. We need more.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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