Nursing Facilities Blog
A blog about the challenges facing skilled nursing & assisted living facilities.
A blog about skilled nursing facilities and assisted living residences
What SNFs need to know about CMS’s Patient Driven Payment Model
Last July, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced a new case-mix classification model, the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM). PDPM will take effect beginning October 1, which will be used under the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment...
Why Skilled Nursing Facilities Love IntelyCare’s Book Me Feature
Finding the right nursing professional for your skilled nursing facility’s shifts can be tough. So, when you connect with a nursing professional who shows up to work your per-diem shift and they are the perfect fit, it's only natural to want to bring them back next...
IntelyCare Celebrates National Skilled Nursing Care Week!
National Skilled Nursing Care Week is sponsored by the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to recognize the challenging, important work that every team member of a skilled nursing facility does day in and day out. This year’s National Skilled Nursing Care Week...
CMS’s new staffing standards are now in effect. What your facilities need to know.
Last month, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced stricter standards for nursing home ratings, which includes smaller windows for staffing penalties and new ratings for short-term and long-term stays. What you need to know CMS will get...
Meet IntelyCare’s Administrator of the Year – Jackie McKenna!
As the premier workforce management solution for post-acute healthcare, IntelyCare has the unique opportunity to partner with long-term care administrators. Administrators work tirelessly to ensure that their staff, internal and IntelyPros alike, provides the highest...
Decreasing Falls in Nursing Home Patients
According to The Joint Commission, hundreds of thousands of patients fall in hospitals and Nursing Homes each year. Many patients in long-term care are there in the first place because of injuries sustained in a fall or because they have fallen repeatedly. Falls are...
Why Taking Breaks Is So Important For Nurses
The Problem with Taking Breaks Nursing is a giving profession and we nurses tend to give a lot, but not all of that giving is by choice. In a conventional job, taking breaks is part of a normal shift. With nurses, there are patients who must receive care. However,...
Top 8 Issues with Short Staffing
Top 8 Issues with Short Staffing As healthcare systems accommodate the retirement of baby boomer nurses and work to do more with less to make ends meet, many organizations find themselves short staffed. And while the best nurses will do whatever it takes to care for...
Nurse Staffing Ratios in Long Term Care Facilities
Nurse staffing is often a hot button for skilled nursing facilities. The need to balance costs with care occurs on a daily basis. For the nursing administrator, the ability to make a case for staffing increases often rests on the ability to provide solid rationales...
How Nurse Staffing Makes A Difference
Appropriate Nurse Staffing levels can make a significant increase in facility payment reimbursement, especially with the Skilled Nursing Facilities Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) slated to launch in early 2019. All of the measures currently in use by CMS are...