Medicare accountable care organizations use preferred skilled nursing facility networks for postacute care management, although the size, structure, and resource allocation of networks vary widely.

The people make the place. Nowhere is that more true than in skilled nursing, where care staff and administrators work every ...

This study examines UnitedHealthcare’s Institutional Special Needs Plans and their association with hospital and skilled nursing facility use. Objectives: To evaluate the patterns of clinical service ...

Patients with complex illness face a bewildering array of specialty and primary care providers, as well as home and long-term care services and supports. Care arrangements may be especially confusing ...

Advocate sounds the alarm over the loss of adult care beds and chronic underfunding of Medicaid-funded Assisted Living ...

The Nurse Management of Care Transitions specialty track prepares nurses at the master’s level to improve health outcomes through clinical coordination and management of patient care transitions both ...

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ([email protected]), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Rachel Willard-Grace, University of California San Francisco. Caring for people with ...

California’s nursing shortage is projected to worsen, and hospitals say funding cuts will only add strain. But front-line ...

Technology is shaping operations, care delivery, staffing, and regulatory risk management in nursing homes, and its ...