As the nursing home workforce crisis continues to have far-reaching consequences for settings along the care continuum, associations outside of long-term care are adding their support for more permanent solutions. The American Hospital Association (AHA), for one, is the latest to throw its weight behind the Building America’s Health Care Workforce Act, a bill that […]
Henry Ford Health System
In yet another example of the wide-ranging effects of the ongoing post-acute staffing shortage, hospital systems are reporting months of discharge delays as skilled nursing facilities are unable to accept new residents. Desperate acute care health systems have begun providing nursing homes additional payments to take on residents, and in some cases offering their clinical […]
Leaders from three large health systems say transparency, a willingness to work together and take on new residents, and more communicative, mindful care transitions are the best ways to strengthen relationships between hospitals and nursing homes. Hospital executives have seen their relationships with skilled nursing operators expand in dynamic ways – sometimes strengthened, other times […]
The 15th episode of our podcast, Rethink, is now available! It’s never been a more important time for skilled nursing facilities to get to know their hospital partners, especially as SNFs face penalties for patient readmissions and a constant battle to maintain census and provide the best quality of care. That makes open lines of communication […]
The relationship between skilled nursing facilities and their referring hospital partnerships can be a rocky one for both sides. But in an ideal world, it should be a partnership, with each willing to work together to achieve top patient and resident outcomes. For Sue Craft, the vice president of inpatient case management and post-acute services […]
Skilled nursing facilities are being pushed by both the health care system at large — and, more directly, their referring hospital partners — to improve outcomes and lower readmissions, while also saving money. To accomplish those aims, it’s essential for SNFs and hospitals alike to have a handle on their data — but that process […]
As hospitals’ preferred discharge networks narrow, high-level thinkers and consultants in the skilled nursing space have long preached the importance of certain key metrics: shorter lengths of stay, lower readmissions, and less overall Medicare spend. Now a new study shows those concerns are grounded in reality. In the years leading up to the creation of […]
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