Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Topic: LTCF COVID-19 Module: Resident Impact and Facility Capacity Surveillance Reporting Pathway – Updates The NHSN team will review significant updates made to the LTCF NHSN COVID-19 Module, Resident Impact & Facility Capacity Pathway. These changes went into effect on November 23, 2020. Download Slideset Date: Thursday, Feb…… Continue reading NHSN Reporting Webinar – Last Week of February 2021
Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This 51-page report with the same title as this blog, was released on February 18, 2021. I offer these excerpted statements from the CMA Press Release as well as the Executive Summary of the report: The report “explores facilities’ responses to the coronavirus crisis and examines…… Continue reading Geography Is Not Destiny: Protecting Nursing Home Residents from the Next Pandemic
Patient Safety Chartbook
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Chartbook on Patient Safety (114 pages) was updated February 2021. “This Patient Safety Chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR). The NHQDR is an annual report to Congress mandated in the Healthcare…… Continue reading Patient Safety Chartbook
Cybersecurity Resources and Upcoming Webinar
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare As part of our nation’s critical infrastructure, healthcare facilities large and small must be proactive and move quickly to protect themselves from cyberattacks that could directly impact the health and safety of patients and the community at large. There are steps that can be taken to…… Continue reading Cybersecurity Resources and Upcoming Webinar
Unavoidable Pressure Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Unavoidable Pressure Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Position Paper from the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel was posted this week by NPIAP (National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel; previously known as NPUAP – U for ulcer). The purposes of this National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) Position…… Continue reading Unavoidable Pressure Injury During COVID-19 Pandemic
Steps to Ensure Medicare Beneficiaries Have Wide Access to COVID-19 Antibody Treatment
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the investigational monoclonal antibody therapy, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, administered together, for the treatment of mild to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients with positive COVID-19 test results who are at high risk for…… Continue reading Steps to Ensure Medicare Beneficiaries Have Wide Access to COVID-19 Antibody Treatment
Latest Current COVID-19 Data Posted: CMS – Nursing Homes + CDC Stats
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has just posted the latest NH COVID-19 data as of February 7, 2021. You can dig deeper into any of these charts here. CDC is showing this data as of 1:35pm (ET) February 17, 2021:
Minnesota Assisted Living Providers: Licensure Webpage Updates And Upcoming Task Force Meeting
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has updated its Assisted Living Licensure webpage. MDH has posted two new documents: Additional Modifications to Proposed Rules (PDF) provides a description of additional modifications MDH is proposing to the Assisted Living Licensure Rules based on feedback received from stakeholders…… Continue reading Minnesota Assisted Living Providers: Licensure Webpage Updates And Upcoming Task Force Meeting
Upcoming Webinar: Navigate the Challenges & Pitfalls of COVID-19 Coding
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare COVID coding gets confusing with evolving guidelines, changed codes and different patient scenarios in post-acute settings. Join Lisa Selman-Holman in this free webinar as she simplifies the guidelines while providing examples and applying PDGM and PDPM principles. PLUS…download the free tool provided by Selman-Holman: A quick…… Continue reading Upcoming Webinar: Navigate the Challenges & Pitfalls of COVID-19 Coding
OIG Report: Iowa Should Improve Its Oversight of Selected Nursing Homes’ Compliance with Federal Requirements for Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its life safety and emergency preparedness regulations to improve protections for all Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, including those residing in long-term care facilities (commonly referred to as nursing homes). Updates included requirements that nursing homes…… Continue reading OIG Report: Iowa Should Improve Its Oversight of Selected Nursing Homes’ Compliance with Federal Requirements for Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness
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