Nurse.com
JULY 11, 2022
A long-term care nurse shared that her facility was accused of negligence in failing to use bed rails properly to prevent residents from falling out of bed. . The RN did the assessment and documented her results. The administrator had another RN change the documentation done initially by the RN in question.
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
MARCH 19, 2023
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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Healthcare Law Insights blog
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.”
Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2022
Monitoring claims submissions for their patients across all care settings is vital for hospices, as is educating referral partners and pharmacies about appropriate service billing for hospice patients, said Lund Person. Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said.
AlayaCare
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be.
AlayaCare
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time. Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Health care providers are giving really good patient-focused care, but we’re not doing what I like to call family-centered care. There’s not even a place in most medical records to document that. That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you.
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