When it comes to admitting residents, how do you determine who is the best fit for your facility? By creating an ideal resident profile, you can successfully determine the best possible census mix. This will help reduce rehospitalization rates and ensure that your staff are able to properly care for the residents you are admitting.
The financial health of your skilled nursing facility is greatly impacted when you’re burdened with a large amount of bad debt, but because of the reimbursement nature for SNF services, you can’t eliminate bad debt entirely. However, by enforcing collection policies, analyzing data from your CRM, and enforcing consistent internal workflows and communication, you can
Welcome to the Year of the Nurse and Midwife! As we told you last month, PointClickCare is enthusiastically joining the celebration. We hope you had the chance to nominate an outstanding nurse for our monthly Spotlight Award; our first winner will be revealed soon. Besides sharing the stories of these exceptional caregivers, we’ll also explore
One goal that Linked Senior has had since it began is to find ways to collaborate with residents and caregiving staff so that purposeful engagement can happen each day. As Linked Senior grew as a company it became increasingly clear that this kind of engagement was only possible when providers came to understand the true
Standardization helps improve productivity, quality, and morale by combining procedures used to complete the same process. It is goal-driven and structured change management. However, change can only happen when everyone involved understands and supports the need for standardization. Standardized processes bring clarity to organizations, by eliminating the guesswork. With a standard process in place, the
Our last McKnight’s Women of Distinction post featured Hall of Honor inductee Jamie Dlatt, Vice President of Operations for Legacy Healthcare Services, with advice on juggling her busy career and home life as a working mother. Now we’d like to introduce Felichia Fields, also known as “Sunshine,” a member of McKnight’s Rising Stars Class of
Approximately 2,000 PointClickCare customers, partners, and employees came together last week to hear PointClickCare Founder and CEO Mike Wessinger, and Co‐founder and President Dave Wessinger, kick off the ninth annual PointClickCare SUMMIT. Mike and Dave engaged the audience with their insights on the “new normal” in senior care, expressing how important it is that both
Many senior living operators struggle with low occupancy rates, mostly due to the development boom that led to a nationwide oversupply across care types. The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care says the U.S. senior housing occupancy fell to 87.8 percent in Q2 2019, slightly below its previous post-recession low of 88 percent.
The investment of time and money into an Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform is significant, and there are a number of things you should take into consideration when thinking about making the switch. Here are four steps to make your transition easier for everyone involved: 1. Get Organizational Commitment to Switching Your EHR Vendor As
After months of preparation, PDPM is finally here. SNF operators are now turning to standardized processes designed to streamline the entire care delivery process. Thanks to technology, standardization enables consistent data collection for improved insights, which results in better care for your residents. Industry Challenges Skilled Nursing Facilities continue to face many challenges in the