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| 05.01.2012 |
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Living with a chronic progressive illness like Parkinson’s disease can pose many challenges. Social workers play a key role at a Parkinson’s Center, helping persons with Parkinson’s and their families to deal with those challenges and to...
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| 08.01.2011 |
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Hospitals and healthcare providers often have familiarity, if not expert knowledge, about Medicaid and Medicare health insurance programs. This also can be true of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which is a means-based financial aid program...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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8 There are about eight common types of dementia, including vascular dementia, mixed dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus and, of course...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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When a patient requires the specialty services of a rehabilitation hospital, case managers look to the facilities with the best outcomes. The U.S. News and World Report and The Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or CARF...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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In 1980 a federal law known as the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Statute came into being. The law states that when a primary payer exists, Medicare is the secondary payer. This law applies not only to group health benefits, but also to workers’...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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The senior housing industry in the United States offers our aging population ever-escalating costs for private-pay residences. With the newer technologies that are available now, there is room for improved care and lower, or at least slower rising, costs...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Home care services have exploded in growth across the U.S. over the past 10 years. Every day thousands of home care aides make visits to clients, ranging from a few hours a day to round-the-clock care. While professional services can never replace the care...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Last year, an innovative approach for Alzheimer’s and dementia care was pioneered in the Alzheimer unit at St. Leonard in Dayton, Ohio. A product of months of rigorous research and collaboration with experts, the approach is known as Behavior-Based...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Meeting the nursing needs of a newly admitted resident to a skilled nursing facility is often a challenge. As nurses, we meet the residents’ needs from many aspects of care, from providing their medications to serving their activities of daily living...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Technologies for improving post-acute transitions demonstrate the value of health devices and computer-based technologies for enabling care that is more coordinated, informed and less error-prone. Technologies also help engage patients and caregivers in the...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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Quality is job one, as the Ford Motor Company has said. A key touchstone of our profession is patient safety. Such a practical aim suggests goals for us to target. And such goals have been and are set forth by The Joint Commission in the organization’s...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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In California, about 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries, or 81,000 individuals, end up back in the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, usually for reasons related to their initial admission, according to a new study from the California Discharge...
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| 04.01.2011 |
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As nearly 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 each day, the strain on America’s healthcare services will continue to grow. An increasing number of age-related ailments will require treatment in our hospitals, and as boomers retire there will be a widening of...
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| 03.09.2011 |
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An alarming rate of one in five seniors is rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged from a hospital. Only half recall receiving self-care instructions or seeing a doctor the month after they leave the hospital, suggesting that a substantial number of...
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| 03.09.2011 |
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When it comes to case management and discharge planning, the status quo has got to go. The world has changed and so have the demands on these departments. Increasing regulations, mandatory adherence to more onerous compliance policies, tighter financial...
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| 03.09.2011 |
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More patients are surviving acute, severe illness or injury because of increased technology and improvements in overall patient management. The clinical management of the critically ill is the priority, but the primary objective of care is to stabilize the...
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| 03.09.2011 |
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Two wide-ranging pieces of legislation have significantly changed the way we deliver healthcare, from how we handle patient information and how we protect and safeguard this information from misuse to how we communicate amongst each other and with those we...
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| 12.17.2010 |
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Every week, The Family Van, a mobile health clinic, travels Boston neighborhoods. Like other mobile health service providers, the Family Van has the opportunity to make an impact in more than one community precisely because of its mobile nature. Instead of...
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| 12.17.2010 |
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Fifteen years ago there were few decisions to be made when choosing negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) for your patients. There was one company, one wound filler and one device type on the market. Today there are numerous NPWT manufacturers, multiple...
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| 12.17.2010 |
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Medical costs as a percentage of total claims are on the rise. Such costs rose from 46 percent in 1987 to 59 percent in 2007, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Two of the top cost drivers are obesity (and associated co-morbidities)...
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