Public health surveillance in long-term care has appropriately prioritized acute adverse events that are discrete, reportable, and survey-sensitive, including falls, infections, pressure injuries, and ...

As of March 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has officially repealed federal minimum staffing requirements, handing the reins of staffing enforcement to state agencies and a ...

In postacute care, we have built a quality architecture that treats falls as actionable events and functional decline as expected aging. The resulting safety-without-recovery trade-off is not a ...

For most of the 50 years they’ve been required to guide nursing homes, medical directors have been alternatively viewed as a true leader for care and compliance — or someone whose occasional presence ...

Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) provides superior outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but remains underutilized due to persistent barriers including donor-recipient ...

The skilled nursing sector is entering 2026 on firmer footing than a year ago. At that time, a new presidential administration and the unknown fate of the federal staffing mandate were sources of ...

Accurate data collection and reporting are more important than ever in skilled nursing facilities. Among the challenges is coding section GG of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) that captures usual ...

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey is a vital tool for measuring home health patient experiences. However, these surveys are often complex and can be unreliable ...

This is the artifact README for vSoC---a first-of-its-kind virtual mobile SoC that enables virtual devices to efficiently share data through a unified SVM framework. Compatibility. While the design of ...

Virtualization technology could provide a unique benefit to protect any legacy application systems from hardware failures. The reliability of virtual machines running on virtualized servers is not ...

Within the compliance profession, Cecilia Fellouse has noted, “Under the weight of incessant regulatory demands, individuals and teams often fall prey to compliance fatigue. This phenomenon arises ...

As the founder of Queer Asian Pride Ireland (QAPI), Pradeep Mahadeshwar is proud to announce a new partnership initiative with Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre. The QPOC Peer Support Group is a space where ...