Clinical and Financial Strategies for the Extended Care Professional

Vol 124 • February 2008

Executive Desk:

What Keeps You Up At Night?

Over the past 17 years we’ve posed this same question to hundreds of executives. Invariably, their greatest challenges remain the same. This is what executives say weighs most heavily on their minds: how do I manage employees’ performance, what can we do to retain our talent pool, how do we keep our current customers happy and how can we increase our revenues?

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Featured Articles
Group Purchasing: Enhanced Value for Long-Term Care
TRAVIS FROEHLICH, DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS, INNOVATIX, LLC

Many say the future success of any healthcare provider is dependent on their ability to creatively enhance or maintain their services and quality of patient care, while operating on continually shrinking budgets.Tough? Yes. Impossible? No. The right group purchasing program can help healthcare providers do just that.


WHEN DONs SPOT MEDICAL RED FLAGS: THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF MEDICATION ERRORS
THERESA LINNANE, MA, CPM AND BRENDA MCCOY, RN, WCC

Medication errors can have serious consequences for patients, and for the healthcare providers who care for them. Obtaining and administering each resident’s medications in a timely and accurate fashion has long been one of the more persistent challenges in the long-term care setting.




Regulatory News
Fall Management Technology: Can a New Generation Position Monitor Assist with F-Tag 323 Compliance?
Using Medications Appropriately
Creating a Culture of Safety
Answering Skin and Wound Questions
Medicare Enhances QIO Program Oversight
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