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Hepatitis A Outbreak in Skilled Nursing Facility, Los Angeles County, California, USA, 2025 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We investigated an outbreak of 5 hepatitis A cases among skilled nursing facility residents in Los Angeles County, California, USA, including 3 who were vaccinated after exposure.
Mona T. Yazdi, Alicia H. Chang, Angela Wong, Christopher Asuncion, Bonnie Dao, Prabhu P. Gounder   +5 more
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The Effect of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Discharge Outcomes of Skilled Nursing Facility Residents

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004
In July 1998, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the payment method for Medicare (Part A) skilled nursing facility (SNF) care from a cost-based system to a prospective payment system (PPS). Unlike the previous cost-based payment
Walter P. Wodchis, Brant E. Fries, Richard A. Hirth   +2 more
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Implementing the 3-Day Skilled Nursing Facility Waiver: Key Insights [PDF]

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Introduction The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid skilled nursing facility (SNF) 3-day waiver permits patients attributed to an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) to be admitted to an SNF or transitional care unit from an emergency department, outpatient
James S. Newman MD, MHA, Kristin S. Johnson MBA, Tia J. Meyer MHA, Victoria L. Anderson MPH, MHA, Lori J. Baumbach MBA, Amy R. Hunt Tjornhom JD, Leanne Y. Lexvold MSW, LICSW, James W. Manz MD, Gerald J. Sobolik MBA, Kathleen A. Madden MA   +9 more
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Incident hyponatremia among skilled nursing facility residents: association with enteral feeding tube use and chronic comorbidities [PDF]

BMC Nephrology
Background Hyponatremia has long been recognized as a common electrolyte abnormality among skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. In the literature, hyponatremia is associated with increases in falls, cognitive impairment, hospitalization, and ...
Daniel Mead, Timothy Mallers, Ian Rios, Emily Ho   +3 more
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Impact of skilled nursing facility discharge on inpatient oncology quality outcomes. [PDF]

JNCI Cancer Spectr
Background Hospitalist comanagement of inpatient oncology patients can improve length of stay (LOS), discharge time, and readmission rates. Identifying additional clinical factors affecting LOS and readmissions will guide further oncology hospitalist ...
Gould Rothberg BE, Morris JC.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Predicting Potential Adverse Events During a Skilled Nursing Facility Stay: A Skilled Nursing Facility Prognosis Score. [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVES To derive a risk prediction score for potential adverse outcomes in older adults transitioning to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) from the hospital. DESIGN Retrospective analysis.
Robert E. Burke, Hess, Edward, Cari Levy, Barón, Anna E, Edward Hess, Jacques D. Donzé, Burke, Robert E, Levy, Cari, Anna E. Barón, Donzé, Jacques, Hess E, Levy C, Donzé JD, Barón AE, Burke RE   +14 more
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Deprescribing to Reduce Polypharmacy in Older Adults Living in a Skilled Nursing Facility: A Quality Improvement Project

, 2021
Background: Polypharmacy is a problem for older adults due to the increased potential for falls, cognitive and physical impairment, non-compliance, hospitalization, and death.
Hopkins, Jennifer
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Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background An increase in the number of older adults has highlighted the important issue of the safety of residents in nursing homes. This review aimed to review previous studies on patient safety of older adults living in nursing homes, analyze the ...
Kyoung-A Kim, Jungeun Lee, Dahee Kim, Deulle Min   +3 more
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Associations of Self‐Reported History of Depression and Antidepressant Use Before Stroke Onset With Poststroke Post–Acute Rehabilitation Care—An Exploratory Study: The BASIC (Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi) Project

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Prestroke depression status and post–acute rehabilitation care (PARC) are determinants of poststroke depression and function. However, little is known on how prestroke depression status affects PARC placement, a possible pathway for upstream ...
Eric L. Stulberg, Liming Dong, Alexander R. Zheutlin, Sehee Kim, Edward S. Claflin, Lesli E. Skolarus, Lewis B. Morgenstern, Lynda D. Lisabeth   +7 more
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Vaccine Effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 Variant P.1 in Nursing-Facility Residents, Washington, USA, April 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
A SARS-CoV-2 P.1 (Gamma) variant outbreak occurred at a skilled nursing facility in Washington, USA, in April 2021. Effectiveness of 2 doses of mRNA vaccines against P.1 infection among residents in this outbreak was 75.0% (95% CI 44.5%–88.7%), similar ...
James W. Lewis, Julie Loughran, Li Deng, Jasmine Varghese, Shauna Clark, Casandra Harrison, Molly Gacetta, John A. Jernigan, Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra   +8 more
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