In today's healthcare environment, understanding regulations and reimbursement is crucial for success. By mastering these complexities, you're not just minimizing risks, you're maximizing opportunities for fair compensation and financial stability. Tune in to learn how navigating healthcare regulations and reimbursement can empower your success ..read more

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One critical piece of missing information about falls is the role of the physical and occupational therapist in helping to prevent falls, Patel said. There is no mention of “falls” in the therapists’ titles so healthcare regulators and legislators don’t realize that such therapists are falls specialists. With the appropriate clinical intervention — such as helping someone gain strength, receive a more appropriate-sized cane or modify their home for safety — older adults can reduce their risk of falling and be able to age comfortably in place. Major home falls risk factors are lack of lower ext ..read more

One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue, says Garry Pezzano, President and CEO of LeadingAge PA. “These are beds that are already licensed and the providers are self-limiting. [Providers are] telling us that they're not able to really work at full capacity or serve as many patients as they would otherwise be able to because of inadequate nursing aid staff,” Pezzano says, sharing results from his organization’s latest survey on access to c ..read more

BrightStar Care is a leader in the rapidly expanding home care industry, renowned for its ability to successfully stand up complex in-home care delivery models, exceptional B2B partner solutions and nurse-led care model. With a holistic approach that spans medical staffing, private duty home care, hospital at home, commercial insurance plans and more – BrightStar Care not only fills a critical gap in the healthcare sector but its flexible solution based approach has led the network to offer innovative, high-value solutions tailored to meet each partner’s needs. As the industry evolves, Br ..read more

Long-term care reimbursement matters have never been more sophisticated and the same can be said of Zimmet Healthcare Services Group — for all the right reasons. The boutique “consul-tech” firm hosts a one-of-a-kind conference every year that tackles a holistic approach to rationalizing the data that will bring providers greater gains. In fact, it’s a data-crunching approach that CEO Marc Zimmet and his team of nearly 200 integrated subject matter experts pursue year-round. As Zimmet himself notes, it’s a system that takes a multifaceted approach to “move the industry” and help providers, whet ..read more

Care of residents has traditionally functioned within two different systems: Nursing and Therapy. Join us to learn how technology and access to better data can be used to speed up the alignment between the differing systems, allowing for improved coordination of care for residents. We will show you that using integrated therapy solutions allows you greater visibility when comparing nursing and therapy assessments and discrepancies leading to better patient outcomes ..read more

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After much wrangling, RiverSpring Health is bringing New York City its first, and possibly last, continuing care retirement community. The man set to lead it, RiverSpring President and CEO Daniel Reingold, sees a great future for the baby boomer-focused addition to the vast array of other RiverSpring offerings. Meanwhile, he wants nothing but subtraction and destruction for the way the typical nursing home does business. “Blow it up,” he says in this McKnight’s Newsmaker podcast moderated by McKnight’s Executive Editor James M. Berklan. Social: https://twitter.com/RiverSpringNYC https://www.li ..read more

Right at Home, which has 700 locations across the United States and five other countries, recognizes that the need for personal care services is only growing and it needs more caregivers — specifically 26,000 nonmedical ones this year domestically — to meet that demand. To help find enough and capable caregivers amid a workforce shortage and to compete with other agencies also seeking to grow, the company needs to win at the local level, according to Margaret Haynes, CEO of Right at Home. Renee Pfister, a Right at Home franchisee in the South Carolina Upstate who employs about 130 caregivers ..read more