Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

have introduced a bill that would establish a national committee to study long-term care in the United States. . Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Eric 02:48 Well, I want to thank you for joining us because you’ve done a lot of the studies around falls and fractures and like, how we think about, especially like in, in frailer older adults, those in nursing homes. About one out of every three older adults falls each year in the nursing home that’s higher.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 11, 2023

This would bring the hospice rules in line with those used in long term care. GAO determined that under current rules abuse reports from hospices may be less complete or timely than those from nursing homes and hospitals. Most of these acts are committed by others in an older adult’s household, according to GAO.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. The post How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle appeared first on Hospice News.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Transcript.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

Generally, the person or their loved one has to choose among assisted memory care, skilled nursing (a facility that offers care from licensed nurses), home care, rehabilitation, or sub-acute care (which requires specialized tools or treatments). This often results in poor care. Miska agrees.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 15, 2024

Real-life language use: The language used is informal, unplanned and often more varied, reflecting the person’s true communication abilities. Engaging in natural, unplanned conversations keeps the mind agile by encouraging residents to recall past experiences, process new information, and engage in creative thinking.

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The World According to Dr. El

MAY 17, 2022

Over the years, I’ve used the column to explain what psychologists do in long-term care and what they could do if given the chance. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from sitting by the bedsides of elders in the nursing home, it’s that life goes faster than we think it will, and I have other mountains to climb.

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The World According to Dr. El

MARCH 22, 2022

We spoke about the experiences that inform my thinking about long-term care, and we addressed topics such as the disconnect between mental and physical health, the moral injury and staff burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, and ways of better supporting staff, families and facilities in their efforts to provide quality care.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

. • September 2021 – CMS continued to modernize the Care Compare sites to increase transparency and ensure that all individuals that CMS serves, as well as their families and caregivers, have the information to make informed care decisions. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). The PAC QRP Support team will conduct further analysis to inform this decision.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

A proactive approach, with well-informed choices, is ideal. Gordon: If you hope to live a long life, you probably need to save more, and start earlier than you think. Modern medicine keeps us alive longer but not healthier, which means costs of care as one ages are more frequent and go up. Something else?

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Develop a Long-Term Care Plan Creating a long-term care plan involves anticipating future needs and making arrangements for additional support or changes in the caregiving environment. Developing a plan can help you make informed decisions and reduce stress during times of transition.

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Attending to turnover has the potential to improve quality, reduce certain expenditures, and rehabilitate the public’s image of nursing homes. I’d also suggest attending to the emotional tenor of the nursing home. I’ve provided these services informally and gratis throughout my career.

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The World According to Dr. El

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With worker shortages at critical levels, long-term care leaders are undoubtedly looking for creative solutions to their staffing woes. A nursing home with an on-site children’s day care program, or with a reduced fee voucher for a nearby day care service, would enhance the attractiveness of the job.

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The World According to Dr. El

APRIL 5, 2022

As I reviewed the many recent long-term care happenings and articles to select a topic for this week’s blog, my mind kept returning to the fascinating column by researchers Lindsey Creapeau and Jennifer Johs-Artisensi, “ Nursing assistants’ perspective holds the key to solving your staffing woes.” .

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2023

They may choose to work in a children’s hospital, for example, or primarily with older populations in nursing homes. Nurses in this specialty can work in their choice of settings including medical offices, infusion centers, patient homes, hospitals, and mobile centers.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. Louise 15:47 Well, I think even in that example of choking in a nursing home, you don’t actually require cardioversion or a breathing tube.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First: Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Refinement of Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Nursing Facility (NF), and Home Health (HH) Function Measures. The contract number is 75FCMC18D0015, Task Order 75FCMC19F0003.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Marie Wilson, RN Communicating with professionals in various healthcare roles — such as personal care assistants, patient care technicians, and certified nursing assistants — was a necessity to ensure the latest information was available to anyone caring for patients.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Her work is informed not only by her career of more than 20 years as a hospice professional but also by her experience as a caregiver for her husband. So I had that to inform my caregiving. They’re tele-novellas; they use dramatic stories to inform people. I had been doing research in this area even before I became a caregiver.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

In direct response to the significant challenges experienced by long term care (LTC) facilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration announced its commitment to improving safety and quality of care. CMS’ data indicates a wide variability in staffing levels across SNFs.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So for seven years, that person had been treated in accordance with that plan of care. Sean: I did, I did.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

And so- Eric: A lot of care was just a tiny, tiny baby by that back then. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Acute care is called acute care for a reason. Take some time to get trust, to get real information.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

L ooking for the latest news in home care? The only place where industry experts reveal their secrets to help fellow agency owners like you make more informed, data-driven business decisions. You’ve come to the right place.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

I, one of the ways I like to kind of talk about this and, and, and my passion is to kind of tell a story of when I was a kid actually growing up, you mentioned that I grew up, my dad was running nursing homes as a kid. And so I would spend so much time at these different nursing homes. We’re not here to push this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Before she moved, Carolyn Davis, 65, remembers thinking about nursing homes, knowing she wouldn’t want to live in one. If I had to go to a nursing home, I would have to go back into the closet. These barriers are why 1 in 5 LGBTQIA+ individuals avoids seeking medical care for fear of discrimination.

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