McKnight's April 16, 2024
Nursing homes are on the frontier of new care models and technology solutions that have the potential to save billions of dollars in healthcare costs.
That was the consensus from experts who also issued cautions at a conference session hosted recently by AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
New care models, technologies and methods of documentation and communication can be especially useful for proactively treating deteriorating residents, they said. But long-term care providers still need strategy and focused “champions” to overcome the barriers to implementing these valuable tools.
Joseph Ouslander, MD, professor of geriatric medicine at Florida Atlantic University, opened the presentation by describing a case study of a nursing home patient who incurred...
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