New CMS guidelines take a deeper look at discharge planning, clarifying who is responsible for what at the time of discharge and why discharge planning is a key to reducing 30-day readmissions. Read More »
Earlier this month, long-term care leaders briefed Congress on the positive accomplishments and future goals to improving quality of care in skilled nursing facilities. Read More »
If you've got data, you've got risks. A former White House CIO shares insights and advice on safeguarding LTC’s valuable data in an increasingly mobile and cloud-based world. Read More »
What a difference a year makes as Kathleen Mears updates us on her facility's "plant lady," who no longer is allowed to exercise her "green thumb" to grow hardy, healthy plants that staff and residents enjoy. Read More »
The Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing and CareSpeak Communications develop a patient-centric medications reminder service to improve seniors' medication compliance. Read More »
Ignoring evacuation plans may become costly for Louisiana facilities that do not have adequate systems in place to move their residents out of harm's way. Read More »
CMS’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announces a significantly smaller and more-focused project list for Round Two of the funding awards. Read More »
June's LTPAC HIT Summit will mark the annual long-term and post-acute care meeting of the minds of technology and longitudinal care coordination. Read More »
While nursing homes are a 24-hour-a-day operation, maintenance/housekeeping staff need to schedule loud and/or noisy projects at times that won't limit accessibility to residents or disturb their routines. Read More »
The attendees at ALFA’s 2013 conference learn lessons about leadership (and Beethoven) from world-renowned orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander. Read More »
Who is entitled to access a deceased person’s protected health information? In Florida, the state’s law allows access to a range of unauthorized representatives. Read More »
A confrontation on feeding protocol and personal safety takes place between an aide in training and her instructor in the presence of residents. Read More »
As Americans continue to aging in growing numbers, long-term care faces challenges on several fronts in providing the relevant care, services and accommodations that this new senior demographic will demand. Read More »
Congratulations to Long-Term Living's final 2013 Leaders of Tomorrow award winners: G. Allen Power, MD, Eden Mentor at St. John's Home in Rochester, New York and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester. Read about Dr. Power's mission to bring culture change to seniors, with a special focus on dementia. Read More »
Congratulations to the fourth of our five 2013 Leaders of Tomorrow: Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC. After 30 years in acute care, Segal has dedicated herself to educating LTC facilities about infection control and prevention. Read More »
Enlisting resident and staff input, ensures that renovation design hits the mark in meeting their needs and ensuring that the spaces created provide residents with a sense of control and validation of their individuality. Read More »
Bed rails are supposed to keep residents safe, but some advocates say stricter standards are needed to keep them from doing more harm than good. Read More »
Enlisting resident and staff input ensures that the design for a facility renovation hits its intended mark--an environment that supports choice, personal control and an acknowledgement of each individuals personhood. Read More »
Long-Term Living blogger Kathleen Mears provides a resident's perspective on the recent public firestorm over a nurse's refusal to perform CPR on a resident. Read More »
The International Building Code has been revised to reclassify assisted living facilities, acknowledging their difference from nursing homes and hospitals. Read More »
For the first quarter of 2013, assisted living occupancy showed a decline from the numbers it had been achieving as it recovered from the economic challenges of the past two years. However, absorption and inventory showed gains. Read More »
Alleged poor quality charges are landing providers in the poorhouse. A look at cases based on poor quality of care and the subsequent verdicts handed down. Read More »
Marilyn Tavenner has obtained a vote of confidence from a Senate committee in her bid to become the first confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in seven years. Read More »
Are boomers—and some Gen-Xers—in denial that they’ll ever need long-term care? A poll taken earlier this year indicates many Americans over 40 years of age, don’t see themselves as “old.” Read More »
Long-Term Living profiles Debra Doyle, COO of Erickson Living, on how her company has maintained—and grown—its census in these challenging times, including strategies in healthcare sales, information technology, operational programming and wellness services. Read More »
