Tag: person centered

A Day in the Digitized Future

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An Ounce of Prevention Goes a Long Way

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New CMS focused dementia care tools for surveyors

On November 27th 2015, CMS issued a new survey and certification memo, based on the Focused Dementia Care Survey Pilot in 2014 and the 2015 initiative to test the survey type in a few more states. This new survey type examined and puts greats focus on quality of care provided to patients living with dementia. […]

Dementia and the Five Star rating system

Nursing homes are seeing a lot of changes related to compliance and dementia this year. Starting with the change in five star ratings that now incorporates dementia related quality measures, more change is on its way that might increase risk for providers. CMS rates nursing homes on three categories: results from onsite inspections by trained […]