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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Noted in its stated objectives the CMS National Quality Strategy takes a person-centered approach to quality and safety and seeks to improve the overall care journey as individuals move across the continuum of care, from home- or community-based settings to hospitals and post-acute care. This all sounds great, right?

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

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). Project Support. Mobility Assessment Item Data Collection Start Dates.

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Remember when I wrote to you all in a January 2017 blog titled, “ Is your rehab partner wearing blinders? that there was likely a shift occurring in post-acute care payment reform AND the fact that there was a technical expert panel (TEP) in place providing feedback and guidance to CMS? Survey trends?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.