Comprehensive long-term care planning is about creating options. When you address these needs proactively, you maintain control over your choices and preserve your family's financial future. When most ...

Optimal collaboration between nursing homes and hospitals is not encouraged by current reimbursement policies. The result is poor coordination between the two settings, and deficient nursing home ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Longevity Health, the nation's fastest‑growing and second-largest Institutional Special Needs Plan (I‑SNP), today announced ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma details a five-point plan to improve quality of care and regulatory enforcement at the nation's nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched a ...

Inspired in part by a site visit to a Minnesota hospital, Epic is working to integrate comprehensive social care into its EHR. That hospital has a teen pregnancy program that takes into account each ...

Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...