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Medicaid Managed Care Comes to Assisted Living
States contracting with health plans to operate as MCOs is a growing phenomenon. So is the correspondingly sharp rise in MCOs administering services for elders and people with disabilities, under the formal name of managed long-term services and supports.
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Cultivating Health Literacy to Improve Outcomes
Health literacy has always been an essential component of successful transitions of care, particularly at the point of discharge to the community.
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Celebrating 150 Years of Care
For many, going home means stopping in for a visit, seeing family and friends, and reconnecting with the places where early memories were made. Time seems to stand still there, and throughout the years, family can be a source of support to return to when dealing with life’s most difficult challenges.
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Facility Assessment: Positioning for the Future
Long term/post-acute care providers may be thinking of the facility assessment as just another paper regulation that detracts from the day-to-day business of providing care to the increasingly frail and acute population.
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Culture Change More Than A Passion for Quality
What exactly are LT/PAC centers trying to achieve through culture change? At its heart, it is hearing and respecting the elder’s voice and honoring individual choice.
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Beyond the Hype: Seven Ways To Improve Analytics
People are creating new data at an incredible rate. With smart phones, digital sensors, and social media, they are creating an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data every day worldwide.
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