Facility systems and technology have not been able to keep up with additional strains of pandemic workloads, according to direct care participants in a recent survey. About 81% of health care workers, including nursing home staff, have had issues with systems and technology while caring for patients – 73% say these same systems have not […]
Category: Technology
Telemedicine provider and primary care practice TapestryHealth named Mark Hirschhorn CEO this week as the telehealth veteran plans to focus on seeing expanded use of the technology in the skilled nursing space. Hirschhorn wants to expand the use of Tapestry services, now operating in over three dozen states and hundreds of facilities, as it has […]
Health system interest, along with the ongoing pandemic, has continued to drive referrals away from skilled nursing facilities and toward home health programs in 2021. WellSky, a data analytics company focused on providers across the care continuum, has seen a 15% increase in discharges to home health programs that would normally be reserved for a […]
Dialyze Direct, already the nation’s leading provider of hemodialysis services in skilled nursing facilities, shows no signs of slowing as it’s poised to enter states in 2022. The national provider now in 13 states and 130 SNFs across the country, announced this week that it acquired Renew Dialysis, a regional provider of on-site dialysis with […]
An analysis of over 90,000 custodial patients from 517 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) across the country found a 14% increase between 2019 and 2021 in the number of patients being discharged home, according to recent analysis by care coordination software provider CarePort. With new referrals still down 20% from their pre-COVID rates for SNFs as […]
A sample of clinicians and administrators at 700 nursing homes nationwide revealed that while telehealth appears to be one COVID-19 trend that’s here to stay, integration of the technology can come at a cost. For some facilities, telehealth was found to cause less socialization opportunities for older adults, and for a patient population that includes […]
Clinical specialists and telemedicine are key to caring for a higher-acuity population among skilled nursing facilities, with the likelihood of less readmissions. Ideally, specialists should be on a clinical team within a nursing home, led by a medical director, but sometimes facilities don’t have access to needed specialists because of location and the wider staffing […]
Large data sets related to skilled nursing over long periods of time are vital to government entities at this point in the pandemic — the same data can also inform an industry changed by the patient-driven payment model (PDPM), in terms of what therapies are working for residents. Jason Menges, vice president of national accounts […]
Post-acute care clinicians are looking to workflow technology to help with frontline burnout in an effort to redesign clinical care and erase redundancies along the care continuum. Tech investment and implementation is broken down by the “need of the hour,” as Signature HealthCARE chief medical officer Dr. Arif Nazir puts it, with infection control and […]
After the success of its hospital-at-home program, UnityPoint Health is looking to expand its skilled nursing at-home offerings and is partnering with care coordination platform WellSky to do so. One of six national health systems approved to pilot the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home program in 2018, the […]
As skilled nursing operators look for new paths to take on higher acuity patients, some are turning to in-house dialysis as a way to build back hospital referrals lost during COVID-19. One wrinkle, however, has proven to be that the rules and regulations around the construction and implementation of these services differ from state-to-state, with […]
As operators around the country look for ways to modernize to attract new generations of patients and their families, one way nursing homes could leverage grant money for technology investments is through civil money penalty (CMP) funds, according to Thrive Center CEO Sheri Rose. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) CMP reinvestment program […]
Several factors continue to push patient care inside the home including health care waivers, patient preference, proposed legislation and an incentive to keep patients out of hospitals during the pandemic, as 32 states now offer hospital care at-home services as of July 27. While the clinical capabilities of in-home care remain limited, some operators are […]
CareConnectMD, a California-based medical group, is partnering with technology platform Curve Health to expand its services and provide “an enhanced patient offering” to SNF residents. Curve Health’s care enablement platform combines telemedicine, smart billing, health information exchange and predictive analytics, according to a press release announcing the partnership. CareConnectMD expects that Curve Health’s technology will […]
Concerto Renal Services, a growing in-house dialysis service provider for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), is capitalizing on a renewed interest in its services and continues to expand coming out of COVID-19 as operators look for new ways to take on higher acuity patients. The Lincolnwood, Ill.-based Concerto has grown from operating in one state just […]
Edward-Elmhurst Health (EEH), one of the larger integrated health systems in Illinois, wants to give patients more choice in terms of where they are referred to in post-acute care. The Illinois-based 736-bed hospital system, with three hospitals including Edward Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital and Linden Oaks Behavioral Health, adopted healthcare technology company Aidin last year, and […]
Nursing home operators have lamented for years how difficult it is to address infrastructure problems in their facilities. In some locations and under some circumstances, they’ve been able to make changes over time. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, means that such changes are not optional if operators want to survive – and they cannot be incremental. […]
At a time when skilled nursing facility operators like Chicago-based Innovative Health feel like they are getting squeezed as patients head for home health or acute rehab facilities, SNFs will need to find new ways to show their value in the modern post-acute care continuum. One way SNFs could find success in improving clinical outcomes […]
In a health care system that’s adopted new ways to track patients with electronic health records (EHRs) and share structured data through health information exchanges (HIE), nursing homes have been a little slow to modernize. But providing better documentation workflows and embracing more efficient technologies will be a must for SNFs moving forward, Dr. Frank […]
Two skilled nursing facilities will soon pilot a new nursing telemedicine platform aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital trips. This Fall, Minnesota-based Southview Acres Health Care Center and California-based Affinity Healthcare Center will test out Curve Health — an expanded successor to telemedicine startup Call9. The facilities are currently training staff to use the system to […]
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