Medicare has begun a long-awaiting nursing home pay-for-performance demonstration in four states. Nursing homes are being asked to sign up for the Read More »
Data Warehousing PowerCube, from MDI Achieve, is a robust data warehousing program designed to allow users to “slice and dice” data to manage their Read More »
Bob Gatty While organizations representing long-term care services are working hard to convince Congress to include support for long-term care in Read More »
Bed sores, lesions, pressure sores, and chronic wounds are a constant source of worry, not to mention infection, and are enormously problematic for Read More »
When thinking of quality improvement in the long-term care setting, not many areas are more important than the threat of medication errors and their Read More »
Person-centered care (PCC), a part of the culture change movement in long-term care, has been called an “attitude,” a “transformation,” and a “gold Read More »
The culture change movement has taught us so much, causing us to think twice about what we do. We're finding, unfortunately, that many of the Read More »
Ahospice prognosis once meant that seniors who were living in care communities were required to leave that setting for a hospital or hospice Read More »
I started writing this editorial in my head many times. What to say to readers who are “meeting” me for the first time as the new editor of this Read More »
It’s finally May and ‘red flags’ are currently flying half staff. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has delayed enforcement of its identity theft Read More »
