Nursing homes looking to best utilize QAPI, or the quality assurance and performance improvement program, should think beyond the obvious clinical compliance and care benefits to residents. QAPI is usually seen as a way to reduce falls or tighten up medication management, but operators can do a lot more with the data besides using it […]
For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for requirements, but they haven’t driven changes to improve care quality outcomes. On the flip side, however, other nursing homes are effectively using QAPI meetings to push for success in quality of care. Executives at these facilities emphasize that […]
Customer service, staff wellbeing, and tackling low reimbursement rates are some of the top priorities for nursing home operators as they prepare for the future. And educating and supporting care teams is especially important in order to strategize with the quality measures that will be implemented in the coming years, as these will have an […]
Despite operational and financial headwinds affecting the nursing home sector currently, a transitional care program and physiatry partnership has been able to cut readmission rates from 29% to 9% among a group of facilities. OSF HealthCare, a 17-hospital system in Illinois and Michigan, partnered with physiatry and care coordination management group Puzzle Healthcare to deliver […]
Welltower (NYSE: WELL) and Integra Health have completed an “initial” closing of their previously announced joint venture, which will involve the transition of 147 skilled nursing facilities previously operated by ProMedica to 15 regional operators. ProMedica surrendered to Welltower its 15% interest in the 147-property portfolio, Welltower announced Friday. ProMedica will be absolved from its […]
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