There remains confusion about palliative care, which differs from hospice care in that recipients do not have to give up curative care. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stresses of the illness for the patient and the family, and it is appropriate at any age and any stage of illness. Also, an interprofessional team delivers it. While Medicare Part B pays for it, the fee-for-service payment remains inadequate, many argue, because it fails to adequately cover the comprehensive t...
Jun 13, 2024•25 min•Ep. 197
Months before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed federal staffing minimums for nursing homes, the American Health Care Association said it would sue over the rule should it offer providers little hope of compliance. But when that rule was finalized in May — requiring nursing homes to have RNs on site 24 hours a day and increasing hourly direct care requirements from an earlier proposal — finding providers to carry the legal torch wasn’t necessarily a given. Many providers ...
Jun 11, 2024•13 min•Ep. 196
Signify Health performed over 800,000 home health assessments in the first quarter of 2024 and over 3 million assessments in 2023, Schwarzwald said. The comprehensive yearly assessments aim to provide pictures of patients’ physical and mental health as well as their home situations. One key purpose of the assessment is medication reconciliation. Being a part of CVS Health has allowed the company to offer more services in the home such as piloting new ECG monitors. The partnership also has allowe...
Jun 06, 2024•23 min•Ep. 195
Follow us on social media: X (formerly Twitter): @McKHomeCare Facebook: McKnight's Home Care LinkedIn: McKnight's Home Care Instagram: mcknights_homecare Follow BAYADA Home Health Care on social media: X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/BAYADAHHC/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BAYADAHomeHealthCare/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayada-home-health-care/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayadahhc/ Show contributors: McKnight’s Home Care Staff Writer Adam Healy and Michael Jo...
May 30, 2024•27 min•Ep. 194
Providers trying to sort out which tactic might be the most likely to save them from rigid new staffing rules slated to roll out in 2026 might feel like they need a map. In this episode, Melissa Schakowsky, director of government affairs at the Ambassadors Group, takes us on a tour of the possibilities, the paths through Congress and the factors that may ultimately influence a successful outcome. “This is certainly the most activity that I have seen [in Washington] surrounding long-term care, an...
May 28, 2024•13 min•Ep. 193
Listen as ALIS by Medtelligent founder and CEO John Shafaee speaks with McKnight's Senior Living Editor Lois Bowers to demystify the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning in the assisted living industry. He also shares specific tools to help investors and operators navigate this new space.
May 28, 2024•17 min
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May 23, 2024•24 min•Ep. 192
Long-term care residents are at increased risk for TB infection and TB disease. Insufficient screening and prevention policies can put residents, employees and the community at risk for TB exposure. During this podcast, Rita Khoury, MD, Clinical Lab Director at Acculabs, NJ, will discuss strategies to reduce the risk of TB in long-term care facilities. She’ll also describe her experiences evaluating the efficacy and accuracy of TB blood tests as an alternative to traditional skin testing. You’ll...
May 21, 2024•21 min
The SCAN Group, which offers Medicare Advantage plans along with primary care and other services to older adults, recently released its first-ever Environmental, Social and Governance report. The purpose was to showcase the ways in which the organization is supporting employees, members, patients and communities, and advancing social aims for the company. Among the company’s points of pride is its work to address homelessness among older adults, according to Jain. It offers many clinical program...
May 16, 2024•19 min•Ep. 191
In this episode, Bharat Monteiro, GM, Senior Living & Long-Term Care at MatrixCare, teams up with Chris Pugliese, Director of Interoperability at MatrixCare, to uncover the pressing challenges and promising opportunities in achieving seamless transitions within long-term care. Join them as they provide actionable insights and strategies to empower providers in navigating the complex landscape of interoperability, driving tangible improvements in resident care and outcomes.
May 14, 2024•17 min
Bhatt is excited about the federal focus on family caregivers in the United States. She mentioned the RAISE Family Caregivers Act, which became law in 2018 and directed the secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national family caregiving strategy. The recently introduced GUIDE model, which aims to support people living with dementia and their unpaid caregivers, also offers an important step forward. She would like to see the model address other conditions and disease states other t...
May 09, 2024•19 min•Ep. 190
Paulo Rocha, Head of Sales at Miele Professional, will join McKnight’s Senior Living News to explore the growing trend of on-premise laundry in commercial operations. Rocha will highlight how processing laundry onsite can help senior care facilities meet and exceed quality and safety standards, while also enhancing efficiency and making operations more sustainable. Rocha will talk about Miele’s new Benchmark on-premise washers and dryers, designed for use in senior care environments, and explain...
May 08, 2024•15 min
Marcum, an entrepreneur who is an investor and chairman of Golden Harmony, a home care agency in Raleigh, NC, finds it alarming that Medicaid centers in states leaning both Democratic and Republican are against the 80/20 rule. Helping home care agencies thrive is one of Marcum’s specialties. In his current work, he coaches agencies on how to improve their cultures through his venture Home Care Breakaway Accelerator. He believes in the importance of onboarding and the critical 90-day period when ...
Apr 25, 2024•17 min•Ep. 189
This engaging exploration of the value of ACOs discusses what all providers should know about this up-and-coming caregiving structure, as well as how Curana has improved care delivery for patients living in nursing facilities, assisted living, memory care and other senior living settings by participating in MSSP and High Needs Reach ACOs. Subject matter expert Nate Aumock also reveals key success factors from the provider perspective and discusses how partnership with facilities is critical to s...
Apr 22, 2024•21 min•Ep. 188
In today's healthcare environment, understanding regulations and reimbursement is crucial for success. By mastering these complexities, you're not just minimizing risks, you're maximizing opportunities for fair compensation and financial stability. Tune in to learn how navigating healthcare regulations and reimbursement can empower your success.
Apr 18, 2024•20 min
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Apr 16, 2024•24 min•Ep. 187
One critical piece of missing information about falls is the role of the physical and occupational therapist in helping to prevent falls, Patel said. There is no mention of “falls” in the therapists’ titles so healthcare regulators and legislators don’t realize that such therapists are falls specialists. With the appropriate clinical intervention — such as helping someone gain strength, receive a more appropriate-sized cane or modify their home for safety — older adults can reduce their risk of ...
Apr 11, 2024•22 min•Ep. 186
One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue, says Garry Pezzano, President and CEO of LeadingAge PA. “These are beds that are already licensed and the providers are self-limiting. [Providers are] telling us that they're not able to really work at full capacity or serve as many patients as they would otherwise be able to because of inadequate nu...
Apr 09, 2024•14 min•Ep. 185
BrightStar Care is a leader in the rapidly expanding home care industry, renowned for its ability to successfully stand up complex in-home care delivery models, exceptional B2B partner solutions and nurse-led care model. With a holistic approach that spans medical staffing, private duty home care, hospital at home, commercial insurance plans and more – BrightStar Care not only fills a critical gap in the healthcare sector but its flexible solution based approach has led the network to offer inno...
Apr 02, 2024•23 min
Long-term care reimbursement matters have never been more sophisticated and the same can be said of Zimmet Healthcare Services Group — for all the right reasons. The boutique “consul-tech” firm hosts a one-of-a-kind conference every year that tackles a holistic approach to rationalizing the data that will bring providers greater gains. In fact, it’s a data-crunching approach that CEO Marc Zimmet and his team of nearly 200 integrated subject matter experts pursue year-round. As Zimmet himself not...
Mar 28, 2024•13 min
Care of residents has traditionally functioned within two different systems: Nursing and Therapy. Join us to learn how technology and access to better data can be used to speed up the alignment between the differing systems, allowing for improved coordination of care for residents. We will show you that using integrated therapy solutions allows you greater visibility when comparing nursing and therapy assessments and discrepancies leading to better patient outcomes.
Mar 27, 2024•23 min
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Mar 19, 2024•15 min•Ep. 184
After much wrangling, RiverSpring Health is bringing New York City its first, and possibly last, continuing care retirement community. The man set to lead it, RiverSpring President and CEO Daniel Reingold, sees a great future for the baby boomer-focused addition to the vast array of other RiverSpring offerings. Meanwhile, he wants nothing but subtraction and destruction for the way the typical nursing home does business. “Blow it up,” he says in this McKnight’s Newsmaker podcast moderated by McK...
Mar 05, 2024•16 min•Ep. 183
Right at Home, which has 700 locations across the United States and five other countries, recognizes that the need for personal care services is only growing and it needs more caregivers — specifically 26,000 nonmedical ones this year domestically — to meet that demand. To help find enough and capable caregivers amid a workforce shortage and to compete with other agencies also seeking to grow, the company needs to win at the local level, according to Margaret Haynes, CEO of Right at Home. Renee ...
Feb 29, 2024•21 min•Ep. 182
Experts from NORC at the University of Chicago discuss with McKnight’s Senior Living Editor Lois A. Bowers the increasing financial disparities among members of the “Forgotten Middle” — middle-income older adults whose resource status puts them at risk of not being able to afford senior housing and care as they age — and what they mean for senior living providers. New research finds that a growing number of Black and Hispanic middle-income older adults may not be able to afford housing and healt...
Feb 29, 2024•12 min•Ep. 181
In this episode of the Reimagining Senior Living and Long-Term Care podcast, a pair of special guests join Bharat and Jim to discuss the transformative power of strategic collaborations. Among other things, they explore how interoperable tech systems and outsourced financial services drive substantial cost and time savings. Listeners discover not only the financial benefits but also how these initiatives address pressing staffing challenges in long-term care. The experts shed light on the crucia...
Feb 28, 2024•17 min
The government’s thinking toward value-based care has evolved in recent years thanks to innovative partnerships between healthcare stakeholders and payers, Katy Lanz said. Thanks to healthcare entities successfully assuming risk for seriously ill populations, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has taken the stance that it wants to continue to drive value-based partnerships, said Lanz, former chief clinical officer of Aspire Health. CMMI models such as the Value-Based Insuranc...
Feb 22, 2024•20 min•Ep. 180
The rule issued last month from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reduces wait times to within one week for many standard Medicare Advantage prior authorization decisions. It does not go far enough, said Nicole Fallon, VP of managed care public policy or LeadingAge, noting that prior authorization decisions should only take a couple of hours. She and her colleague, Mollie Gurian, VP of home-based public policy for LeadingAge, pointed out that they also are pushing for MA prior aut...
Feb 08, 2024•21 min•Ep. 179
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Jan 30, 2024•14 min•Ep. 178
The nursing shortage is preventing home care from meeting client demand, Sun acknowledged. But advances in immigration, outreach in nursing schools and CNA career pathing are three ways to solve the nursing shortage, she said. Besides home care, the company, which has more than 365 franchised and company-owned locations nationwide, has branched into senior living and care homes. The latter is a residential community initiative that involves homes of 10 to 12 residents in the Boise, ID, area. Fra...
Jan 25, 2024•20 min•Ep. 177
