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 Executive Desk:
Effective Leaders are Effective Managers, Too
Why is it that no one aspires to be a good manager these days? While good leaders are essential for galvanizing people and moving organizations forward, managers are not any less important. Managers have to get things done through others.The manager is supposed to plan, organize, coordinate, and control.
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Extended Care News on the Web is a comprehensive resource for clinical information on geriatric medicine and long-term care as well as Nursing Home. We hope the articles below provide timely information for your practice.
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Risk Sharing in Long-Term Care: Realistic Solution or Marketing Ploy?
Aggressive pressure ulcer prevention programs are one means of lessening the pressure ulcer litigation burden. Tempur-Medical developed a skin management system focused on preventing pressure ulcers. Does the risk-sharing approach work?
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Testimonial: Wyandot County Nursing Home
Care of the Staff is as Important as Care of Residents
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Turning Data into Knowledge
Using MDS Data to Know the Facility
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The Bottom Line on Wandering and Elopement
Hazardous wandering and elopements are among the most costly risk exposures in long-term care. Nursing homes are the new liability targets for insurers and trial lawyers. Today, long-term care facilities are challenged on all fronts.
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Urinary Incontinence and Indwelling Catheters: CMS Guidance for Long-Term Care
Read this article and click the link below to download the CE quiz
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The Aging of America
An impending population ?shockwave? of elder Americans magnifies the importance of better and more efficient palliative care.
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September 2005
Influenza kills about 36,000 Americans and hospitalizes 200,000 each year. ? Source: Reuters Premier Adds Nurse Assist to Fall Prevention Contract Portfolio Premier, Inc. (San Diego, Calif) has awarded Nurse Assist, Inc. (Fort Worth, Tex) a new contract in its fall prevention portfolio beginning August 1, 2005.
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Nursing Home Residents Rate Their Care Providers
Part One of a Three-Part Series
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Embracing Technology (for Your Residents)
How about, instead, the staff reply, ? But is there something missing in all of this? The mission of our company, It?
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Why Lawyers Are Still Targeting Pressure Ulcers
A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the volatile world of pressure ulcer lawsuits, a particularly gruesome picture can be worth millions of dollars?regardless of whether the ulcer was preventable.
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May 8-9, 2008
The Symposium on Regulatory Issues for Management in Long-Term Care is the only conference to provide details regarding new federal regulations that will directly impact the delivery of services in long-term care. Special emphasis includes reimbursement strategies to maximize profits, as well as insights into new initiatives by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). |
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 Targeting the Science Within WoundsOnline Version
PDF VersionCME, CPME & CE-Accredited Activity Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Podiatrists
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Chronic wound management is a billion dollar industry in this country. Healthcare professionals, regardless of level of expertise or practice setting, must be able to provide quality, cost effective care based on national standards of practice. | Learn More
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