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Canada’s New Long-Term Care Standards- Accountability & Risk Management on a Mission

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”

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The path forward for long-term care

The World According to Dr. El

With staffing shortages, reduced occupancy, the ongoing pandemic and other challenges, it’s a worrisome time for long-term care. Become part of a continuum of care – Even before the pandemic, no one wanted to come into a nursing home (unless they had no home of their own).

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Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Standards: A Good Start, But Not Quite There

AJN Off the Charts

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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Employment Considerations for Long Term Care Facilities under the Biden-Harris Administration

Healthcare Law Insights blog

In direct response to the significant challenges experienced by long term care (LTC) facilities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration announced its commitment to improving safety and quality of care. The comment period for the Proposed Rule closed on June 10, 2022.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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April 2022: CMS updates National Quality Strategy

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

April 2022, however, also brings us a renewed approach and initiatives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its National Quality Strategy. Through this measure and others, CMS intends to propose the establishment of a maternity care quality hospital designation to be publicly reported on Medicare.gov. •

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Rippl to Offer Home-Based Mental Health Care for Seniors After $32 Million Seed Round

Hospice News

“We have to bring a lot of other people from other disciplines into this space, building an army of specialists that have the right support to go out and keep people at home,” Engskov explained. Many people will never be able to really afford long-term care, and I think there’s a big equity issue here.