How To Improve Long-Term Care Quality Measures
Many long-term care administrators are concerned about their facility’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) star ratings, and for good reason. CMS ratings measure the quality of care a...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of Annual Mandatory Training
Importance of Repetition to Ensure Safety A new cycle of annual, mandatory education and training will soon begin in organizations nationwide. Some common topics for healthcare facilities are: HIPAA,...
View ArticleThe Nursing Shortage and Its Impact on Patient Safety
Current State of Nursing Shortage Nursing shortage statistics confirm that the healthcare industry is facing an urgent need for additional nurses. And, according to the American Association of Colleges...
View ArticleDoes Your Team Need to Brush Up on Medication Administration Basics?
Proper training in medication documentation is crucial to providing consistent, high quality care. The medication administration record is an important part of the plan of care. Authorized persons...
View ArticleSupporting Your Social Workers: Finding Strength in the Pandemic
Social workers have faced unprecedented challenges during the pandemic and are not alone in this struggle. Although social workers have been trained to compartmentalize their own experiences from those...
View ArticleEnhancing Mobility in Dementia Care: Q&A With Teepa Snow
After presenting a recent webinar, Dementia Care: Enhancing Mobility and Reducing Fall Risks, Teepa Snow received many questions regarding this important topic. We’re featuring the questions and...
View ArticleWhy Employee Wellness Should Include Training
When it comes to employee wellness and supporting your staff, many organizations will tout an employee assistance program (EAP) or other similar health-related benefits. What is less often considered...
View ArticleFight Turnover With an Effective Home Health Aide Job Description
With hiring and turnover continually challenging home health agencies, now is the time to make sure your home health aide job description is attracting the right candidates. Clearly, the desire for...
View ArticleInsights About Screening and Assessing for Dementia: Q&A With Teepa Snow
After presenting a recent webinar, Dementia Screening and Assessment: Options and Value, Teepa Snow received many follow-up questions. We’ve featured the questions and her insightful answers here so...
View ArticleAttending to Correctional Officers’ Wellness and Well-Being
Pandemic-related challenges affecting the corrections community in the last year or so have intensified the need to support correctional officers’ wellness and well-being. There has never been a more...
View ArticleCNA Turnover Costs: Pain Points for Skilled Nursing Facilities
The cost of certified nursing assistant (CNA) turnover in skilled nursing facilities is detrimental to an organization’s financial health. Managers understand this is a significant pain point that...
View ArticleHospice Billing Compliance: Review Your PEPPER Data
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, is a valuable tool that helps identify billing danger spots within your hospice organization. It provides essential Medicare...
View ArticleThe Role of Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue cycle management is a key financial process that significantly impacts how well an organization functions. Mistakes made within the revenue cycle are both common and costly within the...
View ArticleSupervision in IDD: Using Checklists To Evaluate DSPs
It came up over and over again in our national survey of direct support professionals—ineffective supervision results in frustrations among experienced DSPs and dissatisfaction with their job....
View ArticleMoral Injury in Law Enforcement: The Mental Health of Police and Correctional...
While quite a bit of research has gone into understanding moral injury and its effects, many of these studies have been geared toward soldiers and combat veterans. Recently, however, studies are...
View ArticleCoronavirus Puts a New Spin on Falls Prevention
Like so much in our world these days, clinicians’ focus on falls prevention can be viewed through a coronavirus filter. Restrictions accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic have led to changes in physical...
View ArticleHow to Improve Suicide Screenings in Primary and Integrated Care
September is National Suicide Prevention Month, when mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness. Relias is...
View ArticleGrow Your Own Home Health Aides To Capture New Business
Demand for home healthcare continues to rise, and at the same time home health aide staffing remains an ongoing challenge for agency administrators. Recruiting qualified aides is one aspect of the...
View ArticleWorld Mental Health Day 2021: Addressing Inequities in Care
Across the world, October 10 is hailed as World Mental Health Day. A program of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), World Mental Health Day has been observed since 1992. WFMH’s mission is to...
View ArticleHome Health CoPs Update: New Opportunities for OTs
There’s a new opportunity for occupational therapists practicing in home health settings. OTs working in home health can initiate the start of care in more situations beginning in 2022 under changes to...
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