Wrist-worn wearables and under-mattress sensors identified early signs of decline that regular staff checks didn't pick up in nursing facility residents, according to a trial conducted by clinicians.
By 2016, 81% of California's long-stay residents and 68% of short-stay residents had physician orders for life-sustaining treatment recorded in the MDS.
With the lessons of the pandemic fresh in mind, now is the time for LTC administrators to commit to recruiting and training dedicated, on-site infection preventionists, experts say. Sources of federal and state help are plentiful, they add.
SIDNEY - Shelby Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation was upgraded from one to four stars in the quality ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se