The Nursing Home Podcast

There are keywords that the nurses are documenting that can be clues or early signs for coronavirus symptoms. 

Megadata's new tool  reports on these small changes early on and gives clinicians the ability to detect them early on and prevent the spread of the virus. 

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Directors of nursing/Admins:

• support your staff
• help them grow, even if they will outgrow your facility
• understand their challenges and address them
• Don't be overly punitive

It's a tough environment to lead or be led. The bottom line is that anyone in the industry should be there only because they genuinely care. 

 

Jennifer's new Business

Silverstar LTC Advisors

In this episode we explore this fascinating service with John Freitag of All American Hospice.

Here are some issues covered in this broad-ranging episode:

• Did you know that patients can graduate from hospice?
• Who pays for hospice?¬†
• What types of treatments and medications can be continued while on hospice care?¬†
• Why should nursing home operators partners with hospice providers?¬†
• The role of the hospice staff in the nursing home.

Here's the link to John's Linkedin group for Senior Healthcare Professionals of Philly, Bucks and Montco.

 

 

 

 

 

All American Hospice

 

Adult day care centers are an untapped resource for nursing homes and hospitals. 

Both are concerned with successful community transitions (read:sending the residents home and having them stay there) and adult day care centers can be really effective in accomplishing this goal. 

It's time for the nursing home professionals to seriously and fully utilize our professional community  partners. 

 

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• http://ambassadordaycare.com/
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Here are some of the topics we covered in the packed episode: 

Alternatives to nursing home care: independent living, home care, adult day care and technology remote care.

We've discussed telehealth in the past on this show with Mordy Eisenberg of Tapestry Healthcare and with Michael Smith of Marquis Health Services. 

Are tattooed advanced directives legally binding? 

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• Eldercaredirection.com¬†

Originally recorded live on Linkedin and Facebook

It's critical for the leadership team to display a strong front and be action focused and forward thinking. Hysteria, nerves, and standing on edge does not help with this or any crisis. 

If you are following your infection control policy, follow basic hand washing procedures, you are far on your way of managing and preventing the spread of this and any other virus. 

There are clear actions or guidelines that could and should be followed. The more we focus on action items that we can do, we diminish unnecessary stress and can focus on actually managing this crisis until it blows over. 

*** RECORDED LIVE ON LINKEDIN AND FACEBOOK ***

We discussed the prevention and management of COVID-19, the problematic strand of the coronavirus and get a better understanding of this latest outbreak. 

As a nursing home administrator, I can relate to the pain, suffering, and misjudgment of the Life Care Center facility in Kirkland, WA, and the residents; families are going through and I pray that they can contain this outbreak to begin the recovery and healing process.

This was originally recorded on Linkedin and Facebook live to address the growing concern of nursing home professionals, the residents and their families with dealing with the Coronavirus. 

Dr. Sarfraz Sidhu shares that all nursing homes and healthcare facilities already have infection control policies in place. We need to be vigilant in following those procedures, and educating ourselves and our staff on the latest that the CDC and our state agencies share about the virus. 

Ultimately, this virus will pass as our communities build an immunity to this strand of the Coronavirus, however, in the meantime this episode deals with the management process. 

David Carvelli is an RN and spent more than half of his career at the bedside and then transitioned to the LTAC (long term acute care)  world where he was hired as a liaison/marketing role. 

David quickly grew to the VP of marketing role until the reimbursement structure forced many LTACs to close their doors. 

Since then David has been with several nursing home companies helping them succeed financially with their census requirements and business goals. 

Shmuel: Why were liaisons welcomed into the hospitals in the past? 

David: Ease of access. The case managers were able to give a name to a liaison and have them work out the discharge. 

The liaisons were actually assisting the case managers in the discharge process. This facilitated a successful transition and significantly expedited the process. 

Shmuel: Why has this changed? Why are the liaisons no longer welcomed in the hospitals? 

David: Security and privacy. Also, with the electronic referral systems, the case managers can send a referral to many facilities with the click of a button. This makes it less necessary to have liaisons seeing them in person every day. 

Other Actions for Clinical Liaisons

• Be available and accessible to discharge planners
• Go out into the community and ¬†share educational materials and trainings¬†
• Attend conferences and events that are important to your acute care providers (hospitals)
• Be active with your local senior centers and adult day care centers¬†

 

After spending a few years in a major accounting firm and subsequently hired as a recruiter from those firms to smaller companies, Aaron finally bit the bullet and joined the family business selling wound vacs to nursing homes.

KCI has always been the gold standard in wound vacs and they had a heavy patent on the device and the dressing kits. The concept of suction therapy has been around for hundreds of years, and the expiration of KCI's patent has opened the door to competition. 

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