Skilled Nursing News September 12, 2022
Leaders from three large health systems say transparency, a willingness to work together and take on new residents, and more communicative, mindful care transitions are the best ways to strengthen relationships between hospitals and nursing homes.
Hospital executives have seen their relationships with skilled nursing operators expand in dynamic ways – sometimes strengthened, other times strained depending on resources available and communication on both sides.
In states like Utah, it took six to eight weeks before the public health department was a liaison between hospitals and nursing homes during the early days of Covid, according to Beth Ferguson, post-acute SNF network manager for Castell, an Intermountain Healthcare Company.
That left health systems and nursing homes to create their own daily...
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