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