Congratulations to the first two recipients of the ENspire seed money grant program! Inaugural projects receiving ENspire funds include “Focused Occupational Therapy Interventions for Clients with Heart Failure in Skilled Nursing Facilities” and “Translating Evidence Based Mental Health interventions in a Skilled Nursing Facility Environment.”
The land swelled below the wing of the plane in gentle shades of green and brown, revealing ample squares defining crops, and the perimeter of a small community where various creeks meander through town before combining to become the Walla…
By Lori O’Hara, MA, CCC-SLP – Therapy Resource, ADR/Appeals/Clinical Review CMS doesn’t define a lot of requirements for what needs to be in a daily note, understanding that it’s what happens during the session that drives the content. But one of…
By Lori O’Hara, MA, CCC-SLP – Therapy Resource, ADR/Appeals/Clinical Review One of the most common reasons for denials in both the Medicare and managed care areas is removing e-stim minutes because the documentation doesn’t support a skilled service. Reminder! No one…
By Willow Dea, Therapy Resource “Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort — to obliterate complacency — and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.” -James…
Did you know that there is a simple way to measure and reduce the stress response in our bodies? The variability in the heartbeat from beat to beat is called heart rate variability (HRV), and HRV is a powerful indicator…
At Gateway Transitional Care Center, we’ve found that administrators and clinicians can work together to stratify residents’ risk for re-hospitalization. Below, we’ve provided some data to aid in understanding the current statistics associated with hospital readmission from skilled nursing facilities…
As our payers become more complex, we as therapists need to discover ways to get better outcomes, in less time, with less reimbursement. Toward that end, we compared the functional outcomes, using the CARE item set, of our Medicaid skilled…
Consider the following patient profile: A 19-year-old with traumatic brain injury secondary to assault presented with moderate deficits in immediate and short-term memory as well as temporal and spatial orientation. He was also legally blind as a result of his…
Literature Review OT and SLP collaborations can provide comprehensive interventions during self-feeding, ADLs and general therapeutic activities. Planned meal-time co-treatments can include an OT assessment of wheelchair/seating positioning, ROM, strength and coordination for both hand-to-mouth and utensil manipulation, while an…