Category: Archive: May 2019

Look Inside Elder Care Conversations: Amping Up Your Activity Programming

Download this free sample from a module from Elder Care Conversations! This sample contains helpful information and insight on activities of daily living (ADLs), and is filled with brain teasers, trivia quizzes, word games, discussion questions, and imagination and reminiscing exercises. Elder Care Conversations: A… by on Scribd Excerpted from Elder Care Conversations: Amping Up Your Activity Programming by David…

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Hospice: How It Started and What It Has Become

Read the book! The Hospice Team Who We Are and How We Care Edited by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Joseph Wender, F.LBC, and Patricia Ellen Morrison, L.C.S.W. Copyright © 2019 by Health Professions Press, Inc. All rights reserved. This series of 21 essays from 9 disciplines of hospice care will give you an inside look into what hospice truly is and the many ways in which the hospice team cares for those who are approaching the end of life. Learn more…

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High-Performance Leadership: The Business Mandate

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is starting to use reimbursement to influence providers and improve nursing homes’ performance. Under their new regulations, reimbursement will be based on performance, not volume. With their reimbursement policy now aligning with “highest practicable well-being,” it is imperative that you have the people, systems, and processes in place to consistently catch issues early and act to keep residents safe. Here’s what you need to know about this new policy, and how you can be sure you’re meeting the requirements. Portions of this post were excerpted from A Long-Term Care Leader’s Guide…

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