Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In 2023, nursing homes have seen increased citations by surveyors for noncompliance tied to their pre-dispute, binding agreements for binding arbitration with their residents. The Arbitration Regulations revised the requirements for arbitration agreements when they are used by nursing homes to resolve disputes with their residents.

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Often, these procedures require the supervision of a licensed physician or nurse practitioner, creating a unique regulatory issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. COVID Testing Requirements.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

CMS has identified three (3) specific CoP tags for surveyors to cite, including: 42 C.F.R. Hospital security, human resources, nursing, quality and patient safety, and compliance all have an opportunity to contribute to risk reduction plans. §482.13(c)(2) §482.15(d)(1) The answer is likely several.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Ten California based skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have resolved allegations brought on by the California Attorney General (AG) resulting in a $3.25 This allegation includes over reporting the number of hours that nurses provided care to residents to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). million settlement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Leverage a centralized nursing model that will provide virtual coverage of multiple patients AI technology. Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations Featured Decision Content: Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Health Care Performance

JUNE 29, 2022

The new guidance for Phase 3 requirements includes the long-awaited F-Tag F895: Compliance and Ethics Programs. CMS will begin reviewing nursing home Compliance and Ethics programs via survey on. Nursing homes should make sure their compliance programs are built to the original rule (plus OIG guidance). not the proposed rule.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

A certified nurse’s aide (CNA) who was working in an Oklahoma nursing home has pled guilty to stealing money from a resident. The former CNA was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail, and ordered to surrender her nurse aide certification and to hold no employment involving care of elderly or vulnerable adults while on probation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 11, 2023 News Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans Further, when using this nurse-facilitated technology in patients’ homes, the percentages of.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

For instance, we commonly seek those with nursing, pharmacy, revenue cycle and physician experience as part of our recruiting process. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape Featured Decision Content:

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

We’ve lost the bit of advice that a pharmacist gives you at the counter or the reassuring smile from a nurse practitioner during a checkup. Leverage the power of nurses for real-time communication. Nursing has been the most trusted profession for 20 years running, according to Gallup. Phone tags and missed calls are common.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health Here's where providers are finding success with these new modalities.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Issue: It is the obligation of each nursing facility to protect residents from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Discussion Points: Review your policies on misappropriation of resident’s belongings or funds to ensure that they meet all requirements of the resident financial rights F-Tags 567 through 571. Her bond was set at $26,000.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Andrea Fox | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has retooled guidance it armed surveyors with regarding how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. Skilled nursing facility staff vaccination rates under 100% of unexcepted staff constitute noncompliance under the regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients. In many EHR, these messages are part of an EHR messaging system where doctors get notifications from patients, nurses, billing staff, etc.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

Skilled Nursing News published its forecast of top skilled nursing trends for 2023. Becker’s published a roundup of over 100 hospital and health system projects costing $100 million or more in 2022 , including 20 with a price tag north of $1 billion. On the social determinants front, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Communication with multidisciplinary teams that may include physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dieticians, and psychologists. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients Featured Decision Content: Algorithms for risk identification and stratification.

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Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two recent cases highlight the importance of skilled nursing facilities maintaining and enforcing social media policies and procedures, and proactively educating staff in acceptable practices. The employee posted the photo with emoji symbols and tagged a coworker in the post.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

the opposite of a simple price tag. According to Mercer’s 2021 analysis of the healthcare industry , the demand for primary care physicians, mental health workers, low-wage healthcare workers, and registered nurses are all expected to grow significantly in the years to come. That includes improving price transparency.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. SGTIN+, TIPP) will ensure increasing efficiency in organizations’ abilities to record, pull and store data from tags. “But RFID has changed considerably.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28. N is for New York and Nurse. But it had to be New York, coupled with a nurse icon from a vintage set of child’s flash cards. K is for Kirkland, Washington state. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content: Cost-cutting will be a priority for hospitals in the US and globally.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. A trained technician or nurse is also always present and can enter the Cube to help the patient, if requested to do so.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

A Massachusetts nursing home failed to provide an individual’s personal representative with timely access to her son’s medical records. A Nebraska family health center failed to provide timely access to medical records.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. Next Actions.

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Healthcare Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Using policy management software means your organization’s policies and procedures are maintained in a central repository, eliminating the need for dusty binders filled with policies and procedures found in abstract corners of nursing units. Policies and Procedures for Healthcare Organizations: A Risk Management Perspective.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Having gotten her start in the hospital system working as a certified nurse-midwife she had seen firsthand the benefit of online training. Other programs had a price tag that floated just above reasonable for their budget. Unfortunately, finding the right fit in a program was harder than she thought.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

” BMC also needed to improve communication between the medical center, the patient/family, and all the caregivers on the patient’s team – school nurses, VNA, early intervention and any other member of their care team. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. RESULTS.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 18, 2022

Massachusetts Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Right of Access Violation Costs $55,000. The mother of a patient at Hillcrest Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation in Pittsville, Massachusetts, submitted a request for his records in March 2020, which was signed by a Hillcrest representative two days later. .

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

CMS issued guidance for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) on how to deal with visitors during the pandemic. UC Davis Health is moving forward with its new $3.8B, 14-story hospital tower after the UC Regents approved the design, price tag and received commitments.

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