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Researchers are hopeful that an initiative to create the largest health records system of nursing home residents will change care delivery. 

In a new editorial, specialists ask whether Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment lead to high-quality care for residents.

CalAIM has the opportunity to improve the ability of managed care plans to transition or divert patients from institutions to lower levels of care, several experts said in a California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) webinar on CalAIM’s institutional long-term care carve-in and alignment of community supports.

With an improved MDS Manager, the contractor will work with MHCC to develop the State Health Plan for health facility services, facilitating the transfer of nursing home residents to home and community-based settings, and developing Certificates of Need prior to the establishment or expansion of certain long term care services. 

About one fifth of older patients with first-time depression did not respond to antidepressant treatment during a one-year study period.

A self-care item recently introduced to the Minimum Data Set allows therapeutic teams to better assess a resident’s prior health status and help predict what is needed for recovery, investigators say.

This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards.

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.