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Across all post-acute care settings, there was low use of DXA to screen for osteoporosis and of medications to prevent bone loss.

These findings suggest that disparities in reporting data may be present in nursing homes, with implications for surveillance of nursing homes, priority setting for facilities, as well as payment and research.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health notified long-term care patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised due to a data breach at its consulting services vendor, Minimum Data Set Consultants.

Following federal initiatives reductions in use of antipsychotic medications have occurred evenly across resident racial and ethnic groups.

The latest case raises the country's outbreak total to 9, and the death lifts the fatality count to 6.

The time is here. The time is now for us all understand the upcoming shifts to the skilled nursing facility quality reporting program (SNF QRP). This is

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System for fiscal year 2024. It also includes proposals for the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) and the SNF Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program for FY 2024 and

In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started focused on-site surveys to address the issue of erroneous coding of schizophrenia in

TUESDAY, March 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new risk prediction model can identify residents of nursing homes at greatest risk for fall-related injuries, according to a study published online March 8 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Matthew S. Duprey, Pharm.D., Ph.D., from the Brown University School of Public Health in Providence,

Clinical tool includes 5 characteristics, including activities of daily living and history of nonhip fracture.