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

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This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. This call from leaders includes Ontario’s scathing Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission Interim report.[1] I was a post-RN student in the BScN program at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

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What therapy teams should know about proposed changes to the SNF quality reporting program

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Discharge Function Score Measure CMS is proposing the adoption of the Discharge Function Score (DC Function) measure beginning with the FY 2025 SNF QRP. 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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OIG Launches Audit of Inappropriate General Inpatient Hospice Billing

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The audit is among a host of others in the health care space that the agency rolled out this month in its Work Plan initiatives. OIG anticipates the audit’s results to roll out in the fiscal year 2025.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care. For the long term. And they can start July of 2025. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. Malaz: Yeah. Diane: Yeah. They have one year to set it up.

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