According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medication in nursing facilities. However, 40-75% of those prescribed antibiotics may be unnecessary or inappropriate – causing risk of serious diarrheal infections from Clostridium difficile, increased adverse drug events and drug interactions, and colonization and/or infection with antibiotic-resistant […]

Thanks to the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), value-based programs are continuing to gain dominance over traditional fee-for-service care delivery throughout the entire care continuum. As such, value-based contracting will be critical to the ability of SNFs to establish themselves as essential entities in their markets. Though involvement with this contracting varies, non-participation is no […]