Posts Tagged ‘skilled nursing facility’
Celebrating the Holidays: Rules on Leaving a SNF During a Medicare Covered Stay
With Thanksgiving day fast approaching and Christmas a little over a month away, Medicare beneficiaries in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) can attend family gatherings without losing their coverage. In a Nov. 21 Alert, Toby S. Edelman, Ed.M., JD., Senior Policy Attorney at the Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA), warns residents and their families to beef…
Read MoreEMR’s Impact on Functional Recovery in Older Adults
Enhanced Medical Rehabilitation (EMR) which includes goal-oriented, motivational physical and occupational therapy, helps older patients recover more fully from broken hips, strokes and other ailments that lead to admission to skilled nursing facilities (SNF) for rehabilitation, according to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis. According to researchers, EMR –…
Read MoreStudy Looks at Impact of SNF, Home Care, on Hospital Readmission Rates and Care Costs
Post-acute care costs continue to rise throughout the nation with nearly 90 percent of Medicare patients discharged to post-acute care receive that care in either a skilled nursing facility or home health care. Researchers say that is known about the differences in outcomes and costs between these two levels of care. But a newly published study’s…
Read MoreAfter Traumatic Injury, African Americans May Face Challenges in Post Discharge Rehab
In research studies, racial disparities in trauma outcomes have been documented, but little is known about racial differences in post-discharge healthcare utilization. But researchers making a presentation at the Academic Surgical Congress on January 30 – February 1, 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida, compared the utilization of post-discharge healthcare services by African-American and Caucasian trauma patients. …
Read MoreDespite Benefits, Stroke Patients Receive Vastly Different Amounts of Physical Therapy
Medicare beneficiaries, recovering from strokes, receive vastly different amounts of physical and occupational therapy during their hospital stays despite evidence that such rehabilitation is strongly associated with positive health outcomes, finds a newly released study by at Providence, Rhode Island-based Brown University. The data also suggests that patients who receive more physical therapy (PT) are less…
Read MoreChoosing Your Rehabilitation Facility
After being hospitalized for an illness or after surgery we hope to go home to convalesce. But if your recovery is slow you may find yourself being admitted to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) or rehabilitation facility. Make sure you take the time to plan ahead for your discharge arrangements when a surgery is planned,…
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