Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since it was tried out early this year, the connected care programme has helped save an hour of nursing time per shift, reduce ICU readmissions by 50%, detect up to 10 early warning critical alerts per 100 monitored beds, and achieve almost zero emergency calls.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 15, 2019

Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes. Nursing facilities. This duty is especially important when it comes to the care provided for some of the most vulnerable in our society, Americans residing in nursing homes. CMS’ approach to oversight of nursing homes is constantly evolving.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

There is no way to succeed in value-based care without effectively coordinating with the tens of thousands of nursing homes, home health agencies and other post-acute providers. What's clear is that in the shift to home-based care, care coordination is a must-have, not a nice-to-have. That is changing.

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Health Care Performance

APRIL 5, 2023

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima SNF Compliance Update April 19, 2023 90 minutes 1.8 NAB CEUs It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinar: All webinars start at 11:00 a.m. CCB CEUs 1.5

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

According to a 2021 survey released by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), nearly every nursing home (99 percent) and assisted living facility (96 percent) in the U.S. is facing a staffing shortage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

What the team found out, Hasselberg says, was two-fold: New York's rural primary care doctors are voicing the need to get mental healthcare services into the state's nursing homes, and those doctors wanted the ability to present tele-cases across the board, not just for older patients.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York.

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Health Care Performance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima Plan a Successful Compliance Week in 2023 February 22, 2023 90 minutes 1.8 NAB CEUs It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CCB CEUs 1.5 SNF Compliance Update April 19, 2023 90 minutes 1.8

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Health Care Performance

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima Plan a Successful Compliance Week in 2023 February 22, 2023 90 minutes 1.8 NAB CEUs It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CCB CEUs 1.5 SNF Compliance Update April 19, 2023 90 minutes 1.8

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Care Performance

APRIL 5, 2022

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. May 11, 2022: Affordable Care Act Compliance Programs for Nursing Homes. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CST - 12:00 p.m. You know what the happiest animal on Earth is?

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Health Care Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. May 11, 2022: Affordable Care Act Compliance Programs for Nursing Homes. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CST - 12:00 p.m. You know what the happiest animal on Earth is?

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Health Care Performance

MARCH 16, 2022

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. May 11, 2022: Affordable Care Act Compliance Programs for Nursing Homes. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CST - 12:00 p.m. You know what the happiest animal on Earth is?

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In 2021, COVID-19 immunization rates among nursing home staff quickly rose due to federal vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and long-term care facilities participating in the Federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. viii] Who We Help – Nursing Homes | qioprogram.org. pdf (federalregister.gov).

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Hall Render

JANUARY 11, 2022

CMS emphasized that states may instruct skilled nursing facilities to take additional measures, beyond those in the CMS Visitation Memo to make visitation safer, while ensuring visitation can still occur. Our prior alert on prior CMS guidance is here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." Respondents also noted that video visits assisted with visual cues and some therapeutic methods, but also presented connectivity hurdles.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. ” Such is the present world of nurses and nursing in the U.S., health system.

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Health Care Performance

JANUARY 18, 2023

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. In this webinar, we will discuss the status of compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes; review other reasons to comply (DOJ, OIG, OCR, etc.);

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Health Care Performance

JANUARY 11, 2023

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. In this webinar, we will discuss the status of compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes; review other reasons to comply (DOJ, OIG, OCR, etc.);

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Health Care Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. May 11, 2022: Affordable Care Act Compliance Programs for Nursing Homes. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CST - 12:00 p.m.

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Health Care Performance

JANUARY 27, 2022

CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. May 11, 2022: Affordable Care Act Compliance Programs for Nursing Homes. It’s been a long road since the Affordable Care Act mandated compliance and ethics programs for nursing homes in 2010. CST - 12:00 p.m.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

As such, patients living in communities with greater healthcare disparities often present with more advanced disease or with higher acuity illness. As trusted community members, they have the requisite respect and credibility to engage with patients in high and low disparity communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"The implementation of a telepsychiatry program expedites the treatment time for a patient presenting in the emergency department in crisis," he continued. Alcera, network medical director/Hackensack Meridian Behavioral Health, and chief medical officer at Preferred Behavioral Health Group, among other positions.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Our alerts on prior CMS guidance are here and here. The key revisions and additions in the Revised CMS FAQs include the following. Recommendations to Reduce the Spread of COVID. Using ceiling fans at low velocity and potentially in the reverse-flow direction to pull air up toward the ceiling if windows are closed.

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Med Law Blog

MAY 1, 2023

As you might expect from a federal investigation, conducted by politicians with media present, the tone of the meeting was more hostile rather than supportive. Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta positing that their research shows that “PE ownership increases short term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, in nursing homes”.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

She presents her findings to the team. About Joel Landau Joel Landau, founder and chairman of The Allure Group , a network of six New York City-based nursing homes After doing so, the data scientist discovers that non-adherence most often occurs in zip codes furthest from the only pharmacy in town.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Evidence revealed that the nurse failed to administer a total of eight required neurological checks to the patient after he had an unwitnessed fall at the facility on the night of April 12, 2018. Issue: Nursing staff should be knowledgeable of standards of care, and the facility’s policies and procedures for implementing them.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

An APR 40th anniversary encore presentation. Report: Mesa nursing home fined $500 after negligence leads to resident’s death. System on the brink of collapse’: CT nursing home workers join national campaign for better wages, conditions. Bloomington nursing home is fined $25,000 for COVID-19 violations.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Examples of covered entities include health plans, clearinghouses, and certain health care providers including but not limited to: doctors, clinics, psychologists, dentists, chiropractors, nursing homes, and pharmacies. Part two of this blog post provides specific tips, checklists, and which reports you need to be survey-ready.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. THE PROBLEM.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the past two years, many health systems have been selling their long-term care, home health, nursing home, hospice and lab businesses, largely due to rising costs and regulatory pressures. This trend reflects a shift from ownership to partnership models as hospital systems focus on cost reduction and operational simplicity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Laura Ferrara, Chief Strategy Officer at Intus Care The focus on healthcare delivered in the comfort of one’s home has surged in recent times, particularly in light of the pandemic. But with the development of digital therapeutics, we are now delivering care at home. Patient care was still only delivered in the clinic.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

A Maine nursing home with a history of federal fines was listed as a special focus facility (SFF) after two residents wandered off in separate incidents last year. They were one mile from the nursing home, so police took her to the facility. In the second case, the resident was hit and killed by a motor vehicle.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. This means patients can receive care wherever they are – at home, nursing home, assisted living, etc.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 26, 2022

For example, cardiovascular genetic testing was not a method of diagnosing whether an individual presently had a cardiac condition and was not approved by Medicare for use as a general screening test for indicating an increased risk of developing cardiovascular conditions in the future.

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Health Care Law Brief

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For instance, some temporary solutions to challenges presented by COVID-19 are being made permanent due to their proven efficiency or effectiveness. In part, this was due to the fact that hospitals were unable to discharge patients too sick to go home, but not sick enough to remain in the hospital.

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