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Future Leader: Joseph Cauterucci, CEO, Avalon In-Home Nursing And Rehabilitation

Home Health Care

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Joseph Cauterucci, the president and CEO of Avalon In-Home Nursing and Rehabilitation, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Disparities: Medicare Advantage Patients Receive Fewer Visits, Worse Outcomes

Home Health Care

The new study is from researchers with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington. “Of fewer nursing visits, 2.7% Source: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Washington Traditional Medicare covers over 58 million beneficiaries on an annual basis, costing nearly $17 billion in 2021.

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Fake Nursing Degree Scam Involving Three Florida Nursing Schools

Healthcare Performance

The scheme 25 people were charged with wire fraud – administrators and employees of three Florida nursing schools as well as recruiters. The recruiters sought out individuals that were willing to pay $10,000 to $15,000 for fake nursing school documents that allowed them to take national nursing licensure examinations.

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Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets Posted

Briggs Healthcare

As promised in QSO-22-08-NH (top of page 4), CMS posted Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing Datasets today, January 26, 2022. The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis.

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They Deserve Better: Preventing Suicide in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Patient Safety

Suicide in skilled nursing facilities—centers that provide around-the-clock treatment and rehabilitation—is a serious issue. Chronic physical ailments often take precedent over mental health issues, which can make it easy to overlook them.

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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

Healthcare It News

CALHN further used Personify Care's platform to launch My Prehab , a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme which helps patients become fit for surgery. At Queen Elizabeth Hospital , these were utilised to digitise its Direct Access Colonoscopy programme, reducing waiting times for patients seeking endoscopy or colonoscopy procedures.

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Five Individuals and Two Nursing Facilities Indicted on Charges of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Health Care Fraud

Briggs Healthcare

Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and related health care fraud charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. as co-defendants.

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