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Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Examining Rehospitalizations in Skilled Nursing Facilities
Hospital readmissions have become a major focus for Skilled Nursing Facilities.With new regulations and penalties surrounding readmissions, this is a major facility focus with facilities using sophisticated processes to track readmissions and to examine root causes of these costly Medicare hospitalizations.
In this series, we’ll explo...
Thursday, August 09, 2018
If Your Dashboard Alerts 976F, You Need CareConnection
“Vitals are vital—and the first indicator of the health of our residents,” remarks Faina Kaganov, RN, Chief Clinical Officer of
The Allure Group in New York City.“In keeping with our corporate mission to provide cutting edge technology and treatments that speed recovery, we
chose to deploy best-in-breed Medline's CareConnect...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
Do The Math. Intervention = Prevention
Early Warnings = Early Intervention = Readmission Prevention
Back in 2014—when most skilled nursing buildings were still capturing vitals manually and less than 50% had an EMR system, Touchstone
Communities’ Heights of Huebner, San Antonio, became the LTPAC industry’s first adopter of PointClickCare’s newly-launched vitals ...
Friday, September 22, 2017
Be the SNF of Choice for Your Hospital Network
"Hospital administrators are ...reducing excess thirty-day readmissions and avoiding Medicare penalties...by using networks of preferred skilled nursing facilities," proclaims a study in "HealthAffairs.Org."
How can you become the SNF-of-Choice?
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Embed an electronics medical record s...
Friday, May 12, 2017
Quick Peek: The CareConnection Solution Video
Customers are asking for more efficient, mistake-proof ways to capture and document vitals--CareConnection delivers that and so much more--powerful readmission
prevention alerting features. Learn more: CareConnection Solution Video
Monday, December 12, 2016
SMART*Tool Helps APRNs Prevent Readmits
SMART*Technology's predictive analytics delivers alerts of those subtle changes in condition that indicate incipient patient health crisis. SMART* technology scrubs the daily measurements sent from CareConnection's vitals integration to the SNF's EMR system, ferreting out those combinations of markers that indicate the potential for infection, s...
Monday, October 17, 2016
Get SMART* About Prevention
How do I Spot Potential Health Issues in My Skilled Nursing Building Residents?
“How do I spot potential health issues in my residents—and intervene quickly to adjust medications to prevent unnecessary hospital readmission? With SMART* Alerts from CareConnection,” remarks Gwen Leger, APRN for a Louisiana skilled nursing build...
Saturday, October 01, 2016
Weapons Ready Target the Triple Aim
Triple Aim is the philosophical basis for the aggressive movement toward Value Based Purchasing—payment related to outcomes rather than services delivered—which is turning LTPAC business models on their heads. The numbers don’t lie. “Chronic diseases are money pits,” Cynthia Morton (Executive...
Thursday, September 08, 2016
CareConnection Announces Vitals and Weight Integration with NTT DATA NetSolutions
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Friday, January 22, 2016
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
Even up the playing field: The grounds of our ball field are shifting—and making it increasingly difficult to hold a solid position. It’s clear our strategy must change from one of defense to bringing our offense “A” game to the table. At the PointClickCare Summit 2015 Mark Parkinson, AHCA’s President and CEO as ...
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Recent Posts
- NetSolutions Users Deploy the Power of Prevention
- Examining Rehospitalizations in Skilled Nursing Facilities
- What could you do with 15 extra "person" hours every day?
- Time is Money AND Improved Care
- If Your Dashboard Alerts 976F, You Need CareConnection
- MatrixCare Skilled Nursing Announces Medline's CareConnection Vitals Integration
- Do The Math. Intervention = Prevention
- Dare to Compare Medline's CareConnection
- What's the Difference? FDA or MDDS? Plenty!
- Be the SNF of Choice for Your Hospital Network
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