August 4, 2015 | General, Hospitals, Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing
Today’s demanding reimbursement models are challenging healthcare organizations to adopt new delivery models that improve efficiencies and reduce costs while still maintaining high quality care. Telehealth is at the forefront of these advancements and a consistent, clear approach to supporting …
May 21, 2015 | General, Skilled Nursing
Care teams within skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) know intimately how readmissions affect the patients they care for, with risks including challenging their already fragile condition while potentially increasing the potential of infection, polypharmacy, and discomfort and stress for the resident …
June 27, 2014 | Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing
Residents of long-term care facilities in parts of South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska stand to benefit from a major Affordable Care Act grantthat will dramatically improve Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Avera Health’s telemedicine connections to about 30 rural nursing …
June 13, 2014 | Long-Term Care, Skilled Nursing
As the American population ages, the principles of wound care will become ever more important to ensuring that patients enjoy comfort and high quality of life during their later years. Elderly and infirm individuals who live in skilled nursing facilities …