Introduction This is the first major change to the requirements for long-term care facilities’ participation in Medicare and Medicaid involving staffing and facility assessments in more than eight years. In the preamble to the rule, CMS itself acknowledges that the changes in the rule ...
Changes have been approved to the Accreditation Participation Requirements, decisions rules, and decision grid for long term care organizations choosing to be accredited under the Medicare/Medicaid Certification-based option.Joint Commission Perspectives...
Cardiovascular diseases claim over 10 million lives annually, highlighting the critical need for long-term monitoring and early detection of cardiac abnormalities. Existing techniques like electrocardiograms (ECG) and Holter are accurate but suffer from
As part of its implementation of the updated Requirements of Participation related to infection control, CMS and the CDC have provided training materials on various infection control topics, and Appendix PP of the State Operations Manual also contains crucial informatio...
Cardiovascular diseases claim over 10 million lives annually, highlighting the critical need for long-term monitoring and early detection of cardiac abnormalities. Existing techniques like electrocardiograms (ECG) and Holter are accurate but suffer from
Conclusion. In acquisitions of long term care facilities, a purchaser will be wise to assess sources of potential successor liability stemming from acts and omissions on the part of the seller and seek, to as great an extent as possible, to quantify any such potential liability. In most transa...
Everyday life in residential long-term care is widely portrayed as boring. However, empirical evidence on this topic remains limited, particularly for the vulnerable group of people living with dementia. A better understanding of everyday life and the as
Due to concerns that this approach would constitute a major budgetary burden, the Government strongly promoted private sector participation: it allowed the entry of for-profit providers on equal footing with non-profits, eliminated or relaxed legal requirements for providers, and held briefing sessions...
The importance of social health is increasingly recognized in dementia research. For most people living with dementia, their social environment changes as the disease progresses, especially when they move into a long-term care facility. However, maintain
Introduction In 2016, the California Department of Health Care Services issued All Plan Letter 16-014 to the Medi-Cal Managed Care plans to provide information on requirements for comprehensive tobacco-cessation services. Researchers at ... SB Mcmenamin,SW Yoeun,JP Wellman,... - 《American Journ...