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Wound care represents a unique challenge in long-term care, from surveyors to infection risk, and the latest practices around hyperbaric medicine, prescription topicals and medicines, and continuous data-driven monitoring processes are creating the dawn of a new era of treatment.
This informative webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of common Life Safety Code (NFPA #101) deficiencies that are identified in long-term care facilities during the survey and inspection process. The program will provide guidance on maintaining a safe and compliant environment of care in accordance with applicable regulations and Best Practices.
Honoring the wishes of patients regarding medical treatment is an important part of end-of-life care. POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), originally piloted in Oregon and California, is a national model for advance-care planning that supports shared, informed medical decision-making, portability of advance directives across health-care settings, and continuity of care.
With the specters of high patient-acuity, cognitive decline and polypharmacy looming in long-term care, there is high staff risk for potential altercations with residents or violent episodes against other employees. However, organizations without an intervention plan and policy for such scenarios risk Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) penalties and, more importantly, danger for residents and employees.
In the new era of healthcare, data is power, and that power is rapidly expanding from the wave of use and innovation seen in post-acute and long-term care. Brookdale Senior Living, Cedar Village, and Nationwide Healthcare Services are embracing the integrated clinical dashboards, data visualization, and quality reporting as a daily reality—each of which have started to add valued metrics to these organizations.
The term "polypharmacy" is most often used to refer to the use of multiple medications in one individual, but there is no clear consensus about what number of medications is required to qualify. Frequently, polypharmacy is considered to be synonymous with inappropriate prescribing, or the use of too many medications.
On October 4, 2016, CMS published its Final Rule, Reform of Requirements for Long Term Care Facilities, in the Federal Register. The final rule imposes the most sweeping changes to the long term care industry since 1991. CMS received almost 10,000 comments prior to its adoption of the final rule, some of which seemed to make a difference, while others did not.
In the long term care setting, January can be one of the slowest months of the year. The three months prior, residents have been over stimulated with holiday events and parties. After the new year, the facility becomes quiet once again. This webinar will provide solutions and innovative ideas for activity programming that will help with combating the winter blues.
Long-term care operators are facing change on every front as we move to 2017. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will require changes in care delivery as well as how providers are reimbursed for the care. Providers who are aware and understand the changes will be well-positioned to react and be successful in care delivery.
On May 12, 2016 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published new final rules on discrimination and injury and illness reporting: 81 Fed. Reg. 29624. This new rule, which took effect in most aspects on Aug. 10, 2016, forces employers to revisit practices on drug testing, safety incentive programs, and injury reporting, and will force many employers to modify their existing practices to be compliant.
