Evaluate if augmenting a transitions of care delivery model with insights from artificial intelligence (AI) that applied clinical and exogenous social determinants of health data would reduce rehospitalization in older adults.
To carry out a systematic review and meta-analysis to verify the effects of multicomponent training on the cognitive function of older adults without cognitive impairment.
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) under the Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2024.
Quality of life (QoL) of nursing home (NH) residents is critical, yet understudied, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to examine whether COVID-19 outbreaks, lack of access to geriatric professionals, and care aide burnout were associated with NH residents' QoL.
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools validated for nursing home residents and (2) critically apprais...
Ensuring quality of life (QoL) is an important goal of person-centered nursing home care. The provision of person-centered care relies on information captured in the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS). It is unclear to what extent MDS items or QoL-related facility deficiency citations correlate with validated meas...
To describe the reliability and validity of the publicly reported facility-level quality measures (“Discharge mobility score”) and (“Discharge self-care score”).
Vikas Reddy, MD, is a true team leader and epitomizes the type of practitioner the Foundation for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine envisioned when they established the Clinician of the Year Award.