New Mexico Nursing Facility ValueBased Payment (NF VBP) Workgroup Partners with Net Health® PointRight to ImprovePatient Care and Outcomes

New Mexico Nursing Facility ValueBased Payment (NF VBP) Workgroup Partners with Net Health® PointRight to ImprovePatient Care and Outcomes

The Objective As nursing facility reimbursement models move away from traditional fee-for-service towards value-based payment, state Medicaid programs need to come up with innovative approaches to meet the new challenges. The New Mexico Nursing Facility Value-basedPayment (VBP) Workgroup was formed to develop an approach that would support nursing facilities’ efforts to achieve high quality outcomes,…

CSM 2023 Recap: Addressing Challenges Facing Today’s Rehab Therapists

CSM 2023 Recap: Addressing Challenges Facing Today’s Rehab Therapists

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As attendance totals pushed 15,000 each day of this year’s APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), held last week in San Diego, our Net Health team welcomed hundreds of rehab therapy practitioners, owners, educators, leaders and students into our vendor booth to discuss the myriad ways technology can benefit them as well as their professions. Each…

Productivity: Why This KPI Matters for Skilled Nursing Rehab Therapy Teams

Productivity: Why This KPI Matters for Skilled Nursing Rehab Therapy Teams

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Rehab therapy teams today are increasingly turning to additional tools and resources that help them maximize efficiency when caring for patients at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). In this spotlight on key performance indicators (KPIs) blog series, we will look at the different types of KPI rehab therapists can measure and how they can provide actionable…

5 Ways to Improve Productivity in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)

5 Ways to Improve Productivity in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)

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The adoption of the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) caused rehab therapists to focus on offering more holistic, collaborative care from the entire medical team. Now, more than two years since the updated PDPM went into effect, the focus has shifted again, this time to productivity principles among physical, occupational and…

Doing More with Less: Giving SNF Staff the Tools they Need to Succeed

Doing More with Less: Giving SNF Staff the Tools they Need to Succeed

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Doing more with less.  It’s become a mantra for the recession-risk era of post-COVID operations, as skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) look to remain profitable even as staffing levels remain critical. Consider recent industry data, which found that at the current pace of re-employment, it will take until at least 2027 for SNFs to reach pre-pandemic…

4 Questions to Drive Effective Data Management for the Future in Healthcare Analytics

4 Questions to Drive Effective Data Management for the Future in Healthcare Analytics

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Predictive analytics and data-driven tools have long since crested the horizon and are now exciting realities in the healthcare space. The days of paper charts and homemade Excel spreadsheets driving clinical decision-making are quickly giving way to healthcare solutions driven by artificial intelligence (AI), predictive algorithms, and machine learning. The fuel of these new technologies…

Meet Our Rehab Therapy Team at APTA’s Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in San Diego!

Meet Our Rehab Therapy Team at APTA’s Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in San Diego!

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Net Health believes in rehab therapy, and we believe in its power to transform individuals and society. That’s why we continue to support the work of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) by sponsoring and attending this year’s Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in San Diego – the largest annual gathering of rehab therapists in the…

Net Health Partners With Skilled Nursing News for 2023 Senior Living Outlook Survey and Report

Net Health Partners With Skilled Nursing News for 2023 Senior Living Outlook Survey and Report

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Staffing recruiting and other changes continue to affect skilled nursing facilities across the country during these challenging economic times. Rising labor costs and inflation, as well as reimbursement updates, have also added to these challenges. Recently, Net Health partnered with Skilled Nursing News to conduct a survey and learn more about the top trends, challenges…

Reduce Admin Burden in Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Facilities to Drive Productive, Profitable, Patient-Centric Care

Reduce Admin Burden in Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living Facilities to Drive Productive, Profitable, Patient-Centric Care

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It’s time to address the elephant in the room.  There’s one big thing that stands in the way of truly productive, profitable, patient-centric care in senior living and skilled nursing facilities, and it’s not the care team. It’s the administrative burden. Countless labor-intensive and hard-paper manual processes impede rehab workflow and do little to optimize care…