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Project ECHO and the geriatric healthcare workforce

American Nurse

Project ECHO connects rural clinicians in primary care and long-term care settings with an interprofessional team of specialists via videoconferencing sessions. A second ECHO line for long-term care facility teams (Nursing Home STRONG ECHO) began in 2020. 2021 profile of older Americans.

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Nurse referrals to pharmacy

American Nurse

Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association ; 2021. doi:10.1136/bmj.m865 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Determine the impact of a structured pharmacist-led medication review—A controlled intervention study to optimise medication safety for residents in long-term care facilities. August 24, 2021.

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Rehabilitation Nursing and How it has Evolved Over the Years

American Nurse

In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). PACE Your LIFE, a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly, provides comprehensive medical and social services to Kent and Sussex County community members aged 55 or older in their own homes. Karmarkar, A.,

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Most states’ retrieval rates of the 2021 home health agencies PEPPER stood at 40% to 59%. We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better.

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Understanding and honoring the needs of Native American elders

American Nurse

Takeaways: Four significant factors compromise care for Native American elders: healthcare disparities, historical trauma, healthcare shortages afflicting rural areas and reservations, and a lack of culturally appropriate care in long-term care facilities.

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Change Is Now the “Constant” for Nurses in Infection Control

Nurse.com

Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities. According to 2023 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website, more than 1.5 during 2021. million COVID-19 cases have been recorded in those settings, along with 164,285 deaths.

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Skin failure: A historical perspective

American Nurse

1980s: Kennedy lesion Fast forward to the 1980s, when Karen Lou Kennedy, a nurse practitioner in a 500-bed mid-Western long-term care facility, observed that some residents rapidly developed skin breakdown, usually on their buttocks, and died within 6 weeks to months. Adv Skin Wound Care. December 17, 2021.