Providers tell CMS to explore telehealth, care coordination, long-term care financing
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 24, 2018
Chronic care management via telehealth and remote monitoring, service coordination in affordable housing, and long-term care financing are some of the new directions that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for years. Fortunately, the inaugural McKnight’s Power Panel on June 10 is here to help senior-level executives in senior living and skilled nursing develop...
2018 Technology Supplement
Jun 12, 2018
2018 IT Supplement updated 062518 Inside: Here’s where the data breaches can be found Focus more efforts on telehealth, feds are told Can robots serve as trustworthy companions? Newcomer Orangeworm...
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Apr 24, 2020
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CDC protocol, prioritization of senior living needed, Argentum tells federal government
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 16, 2020
The federal government should clarify protocols that assisted living communities and states should take when residents have symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and should take other steps to...
Chronic care proposal: Workforce, HCBS issues concern groups
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 02, 2016
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance, National Center for Assisted Living and American Health Care Association are among the groups expressing concerns about Senate Finance Committee Bipartisan Chronic Care...
Telemedicine decreases ED use by senior living residents with dementia: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 07, 2019
Use of telemedicine can decrease emergency department use by independent living and assisted living residents for their acute illnesses, according to a study newly published in the Journal of Post-Acute...
Health monitoring reduces hospitalizations, turnover of affordable housing residents
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 13, 2017
Use of an on-site telehealth kiosk and weekly nurse consultations have cut resident hospitalizations, reduced resident moves to higher levels of care and decreased resident turnover at affordable housing...
6 business opportunities for those serving older adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2016
Six areas of business opportunity exist for those serving older adults and the people who care for them, according to the Caregiving Innovation Frontiers study recently issued by the AARP and Parks Associates.
Colorado law aims to simplify licensing process for nurses
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 23, 2018
A new law in Colorado aims to help address the state’s nursing shortage and make it easier for the state’s almost 90,000 nurses to respond to emergencies in other states by simplifying licensing...