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U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Hospice News

have introduced a bill that would establish a national committee to study long-term care in the United States. . The bill, called the Supporting Our Seniors Act, would create a national advisory commission that would study the state of long term care and regularly report its findings to Congress.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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Guaranteed Taps SVP of Strategic Growth; Nurses Step Into C-Suite at Hospice of the Piedmont, Hudson Valley Hospice

Hospice News

Previously, he was head of growth at Mavencare, and served in sales manager and director roles at Hometeam from 2013 to 2016. Guaranteed Health is redefining the end-of-life-care experience by building a-first-of-its-kind technology and AI-enabled platform that supports patients, caregivers, providers and payers.

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Turnover reporting: This is going to be good*

The World According to Dr. El

Such supports will not only help employees overcome pandemic-related trauma but can also assist them in dealing with a host of problems usually unaddressed by long-term care employers, such as the loss of beloved residents, team conflicts, difficult families and dealings with residents who are challenging in a variety of ways.

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Happy Canada Day to Our Home Healthcare Community!

AlayaCare

In the late 70s through the 90s, the Established Programs Financing Act sent federal transfers to provinces and territories for extended health care services, using a population-based formula. With this flexibility, provinces and territories developed extended services such as home care, ambulatory care, and long-term care.

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PEPPER Report: Target areas for rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Beginning in 2013, according to statutory language in “Section 6102” of the Affordable Care Act, SNFs are required to have a compliance program. 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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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. JAMA IM 2013, you had a paper that showed what, 300, $400.