PRACTICE GUIDELINES:
Weigh The Benefits And Risks Of Health Maintenance Interventions
AMDA clinical practice guideline helps you navigate the options.
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
Other Articles in this issue of
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- WOUND CARE:
5 Key Debridement Strategies--How To Pick The Right One
Make sure this treatment helps rather than hurts wounds.
Debriding a wound can give it a [...] - CANCER CARE:
Give Your Cancer Screening And Care A Checkup
Does your facility use this 3-step approach for each resident?
A one-size-fits all approach to detecting [...] - CANCER CARE:
Help Elderly Breast Cancer Patients, Physicians Weigh Rx Options
New clinical trial data, lab test can improve decision-making.
A resident has an early estrogen receptor-positive [...] - BEST PRACTICES:
Look Beyond Section I Of The MDS To Identify Potential Metastatic Disease
The answer to this resident's riddle of symptoms was in his medical history.
Out of sight [...] - WOUND CARE TRENDS:
Maggot Therapy Could Save A Resident's Life Or Limb
Find out what this 'smart' debridement method has to offer.
Medical maggot therapy has been called [...] - MEDICATION SAFETY:
Resident Taking Erythopoiesis-Stimulating Agent? Beware New FDA Alert
Stay on top of the dangers of these anemia-fighting meds.
Many residents receiving chemo or dialysis [...] - RESOURCE:
New Tool Can Help You Adapt Health Promotion To Nursing Home Residents
Check out AMDA's new decision-making guidelines.
Facilities will now have an easier time deciding on preventive [...] - SURVEY MANAGEMENT:
4 Actions Your Medical Director Needs To Take To Ensure Medication Safety
Unheeded FDA alerts sow the seeds of F501 deficiencies.
To address FDA alerts, the medical director [...] - SURVEY MANAGEMENT:
Backlogs In Complaint Investigations Can Work In Your Favor -- Here's How
Know the rules for how surveyors can punish you for past noncompliance.
Suppose your facility self [...] - SURVEY NEWS:
Ready To Reach Into Your Pockets To Pay For Survey Revisits?
The word is that CMS may issue a reg to implement user fees for FY [...] - PRACTICE GUIDELINES:
Weigh The Benefits And Risks Of Health Maintenance Interventions
AMDA clinical practice guideline helps you navigate the options. - ASSESS YOUR MDS KNOWLEDGE:
To Code Or Not To Code Resisting Care In E4
Whether you do so depends on this key factor.
Question: A resident with dementia refuses bathing [...] - CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Plan Ahead To Meet Staff Education Needs
Improve your MDS know-how and quality of care.
Our upcoming Eli-sponsored audio conferences will educate, inform [...] - HIPAA SECURITY:
Don't Let HIPAA Breaches Trip Up Your Facility
New HHS concerns about electronic PHI could have CMS on your trail.
HIPAA is back on [...] - CASE STUDY:
Meet The Short-Stay Challenge In Completing The CMS-802
This subacute facility knows where to collect info for the form quickly.
Facilities with lots of [...] - SURVEY & CLINICAL NEWS
Looking to boost residents' immune response to the shingles vaccine and promote better physical functioning, [...]
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