December 2021

Read the digital edition of the December 2021 print issue here. Select excerpts from this month’s magazine can also be found below.

Long-term care stakeholders were left searching for bright spots after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule final rule in early November.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has turned up the heat again on providers with new guidance that directs surveyors to take a more critical look at nurse competency and residents’ quality...

Nicole Colline, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, Yale School of Nursing

After watching pay for temporary workers explode over the last year-plus, providers have been calling out anti-competitive behavior and pushing for fast state and federal pricing reforms.

Smith Village in Chicago listened to its residents and jumped fully into the movement of increasing private rooms in skilled nursing and rehab spaces.

Q: What are the best products for healing wounds? 

For nearly half a century Alveta Roberts has been a certified nursing assistant at the Crest Pointe Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center. That lifetime’s worth of work, professionalism and dedication to...

It’s a dilemma anyone who has worn a bandage has faced: How can you tell if a wound is healing without taking off the dressing and potentially damaging delicate new skin?

Reginald Hartsfield, Owner and President, Advantage Living Centers