Dignifying America's Nursing Homes
CMS has added examples to the the interpretative gudelines due to nursing homes still having many undignified practices.
LPN Empowerment Seminar- New Dates
LPN Empowerment - Part 1 and Part 2 Session coming to a location near you.....
Welcome to Ecumen's Nursing Home Help Desk Blog for Long-Term Care Professionals
The Nursing Home Help Desk Blog features Ecumen director of clinical consulting Mary Leber sharing insights, tips, ideas and news from the world of long-term care with a clinical perspective. This will be a great resource for professionals on the clinical side of long-term care.
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Tips for Effective RN Delegation in Long-Term Care
By Mary Leber, Director, Ecumen Consulting Services
Effective delegation is important to every profession, but it’s especially important in nursing. Some RNs – due to heavy workloads and limited staff – may be tempted to delegate responsibility to LPNs and nursing assistants before they’re ready for certain tasks. RNs, however, need to adhere to delegation guidelines found in many state’s laws.
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Overcoming Mistakes on Section G of the MDS: The Most Miscoded Section
By Mary Leber, Director, Ecumen Consulting Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Section G of the “Minimum Data Set” is an important assessment tool for reimbursement. The 10 to12 page document requires nurses to spend, on average, four hours per resident assessment, correctly encoding the collected data and observations gathered over a period of days and weeks and then submitting the results to CMS for reimbursements.
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Ecumen Publishes QIS Whitepaper
Ecumen Whitepaper discusses 10 key tips to help nursing homes prepare for the QIS from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
10 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Senior Housing Management Company
The professions of senior housing and aging services are customer-service intensive. Customers vote with their feet. As you search for a senior housing, nursing home or a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) management company, ask yourself these 10 questions to help ensure that you find the right
management partner for your customers and you..
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Tips for Reducing Common Medicare Billing Errors
By Mary Leber, Director, Ecumen Consulting Services
Many in our profession find Medicare to be a Rubik’s cube of regulation and complexity. Combine that with busy employees, large workloads, a lack of a minimum data set coordinator (MDS), and a care center can quickly find that it’s not filing Medicare claims in an accurate, timely manner.
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