Skilled nursing facilities are also feeling pressure from hospitals themselves to reduce readmissions.
Skilled nursing facilities are businesses that serve a great need in our communities.
Or that Blue Cross, or another health insurance provider will pay for skilled nursing facilities as long as you need them?
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Virginia Fichera, who has relatives in two nursing homes in New York, said she would welcome a greater push for accountability at skilled nursing facilities.
Steps such as these are especially important since more patients are receiving post-acute and post-surgical care in skilled nursing facilities rather than in hospitals themselves.
For years, many home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities have interpreted Medicare rules to mean the program would not pay for rehab if a patient is not getting better.
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The other half features two 50-foot-long, 20-foot-wide conveyor-style robots that spend 20 hours a day plucking and packaging 62, 000 pills dispensed to 5, 800 residents of skilled nursing facilities in Maryland and Delaware.
The Office of Inspector General's report was based on medical records from 190 patient visits to nursing homes in 42 states that lasted at least three weeks, which investigators said gave them a statistically valid sample of Medicare beneficiaries' experiences in skilled nursing facilities.
Greg Crist, a Washington-based spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association, which represents the largest share of skilled nursing facilities nationwide, said overall nursing home operators are well regulated and follow federal guidelines but added that he could not fully comment on the report's conclusions without having had the chance to read it.
Thanks to pro-bono help from Silicon Valley legal powerhouse, Wilson Sonsini, SIRUM was able to get the California Department of Public Health to clarify regulations and for the first time enable pharmaceuticals companies, wholesalers, and skilled nursing facilities to make donations of surplus medications directly to the clinics that need them, without concern of liability.
Medicare covers skilled nursing care but doesn't pay for continuing care in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities.
Type C facilities charge more for residents who move into assisted-living or skilled-nursing units, but also charge smaller or no entrance fees and lower monthly rates for independent living.
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