As any lover of gourmet food can tell you, amazing things often result when you mix unexpected ingredients. In the case of a Seattle nursing home, the diverse ingredients are not food groups but age groups. It’s all happening at the Intergenerational Learning Center, a combination preschool and nursing home … Read More
5 important things we learned at the 2015 AANAC conference
SimpleLTC recently participated in the 2015 AANAC Conference in New Orleans, which marked our fifth consecutive year to exhibit at the event and fourth consecutive year to serve as overall presenting sponsor. As we’ve said before, we’re proud to support AANAC and each year the AANAC conference one of our … Read More
On-demand webinar: MDS Focused Survey & Staffing Survey
The new MDS focused survey and staffing survey are here…are you ready? Last year, CMS piloted a focused survey in five states to assess MDS 3.0 coding accuracy and their relationship to resident care. In 2015, CMS will expand these surveys nationwide, as well as expand them to assess nursing … Read More
Texas HHSC answers your STAR+PLUS managed care questions
Texas Medicaid managed care is coming Mar. 1… read this FAQ to prepare As a service to Texas long-term care providers, SimpleLTC and Texas Medicaid Coalition offered a free webinar on Dec. 11 entitled, “Preparing for Texas Star+Plus Medicaid Managed Care”. (Watch it on-demand here.) Nearly 1,000 attendees participated and … Read More
Ditch the paper to simplify end-of-life documentation
The march toward electronic health records (EHRs) and the digitizing of our health information can’t be stopped. The question is how efficiently we can reach the ultimate EHR destination — and whether anyone knows exactly what that destination looks like anyway. One clear example of the murkiness surrounding long-term care … Read More