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Signature HealthCARE’s new flu vaccine policy will affect everyone in every facility

August 29, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
A new influenza vaccination policy announced Wednesday by Louisville, KY-based Signature HealthCARE will apply to all employees, residents, patients, volunteers, vendors and others in any of the organization’s assisted living, memory care, skilled...

Researchers develop model to predict readmission risk from SNFs

August 26, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
A new model may let providers predict how likely it is for a skilled nursing facility post-surgical patient to be readmitted to the hospital. Cleveland Clinic researchers developed their model to assess the readmission risk of surgical patients...

The blanket approach: Best practices for PDPM Success

August 23, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Yet another glorious summer bites the dust, and fall colors are looming around the corner. Similarly, on October 1, SNFs, and their extended summer fling with RUGs, morph into the uncertainty of the Patient-Driven Payment Model. The falling...

Geriatrics may be a ‘stealth’ family-friendly profession

August 22, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
It’s no secret that while the entire nursing home industry has a labor problem, there is significant concern over whether enough geriatricians are entering the field. The United States needs to start training about 1,600 geriatricians per year for...

Why telehealth isn’t in nursing homes

August 21, 2019
AMDA in the News
Politico
TELEHEALTH: WHY NOT IN NURSING HOMES? — Virtual care could save frail, elderly patients from being shunted from the nursing home to the emergency department – a trip that could disorient them and worsen their conditions, especially if it’s not...

RAFT Model Cuts Emergency Department Transfers in SNF Population

August 19, 2019
AMDA in the News
Provider Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Three rural skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) using the Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT) model saw emergency department (ED) trips from their facilities to hospitals decline “substantially,” and they also recorded a reduction in some...

Telemedicine could keep older patients out of the hospital. So why hasn't it taken off?

August 19, 2019
AMDA in the News
Politico
It's easy enough for a doctor on an app to prescribe a birth control pill or an antibiotic. But try getting one to virtually examine your sick mom in a nursing home. Chances are, she'll end up instead being sent to the hospital, where bad problems...

Finding a life RAFT for avoiding hospitalizations

August 15, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
If INTERACT used to be the Tom Cruise of the long-term care world, then RAFT is Chris Hemsworth. Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT), like the actor who plays Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, may have been originally dismissed as just...

RAFT model reduced hospitalizations of nursing home residents by 31%, study finds

August 14, 2019
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
The Reducing Avoidable Facility Transfers (RAFT) model reduced emergency department transfers and hospitalizations among skilled nursing facility residents by more than a third, according to a study in the August issue of the Journal of the American...

Study: RAFT Model Reduces ED Transfers, Hospital Utilization

August 13, 2019
Press Release
A transfer to the Emergency Department (ED) can be lifesaving for frail elders, but it also poses a risk for increased suffering and debility. In addition, studies have shown that many ED transfers from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are both...