Long Term Care Information
- CMS - Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System -This is how Medicare Part A reimburses for skilled nursing facility care.
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JCAHO - 2008 National Patient Safety Goals for LTC - National Patient Safety Goals
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This chapter addresses the 2008 National Patient Safety Goals, requirements,and implementation expectations. The purpose of The Joint Commission’sNational Patient Safety Goals is to promote specific improvements in patientsafety. The goals highlight problematic areas in health care and describeevidence and expert-based consensus to solutions to these problems.Recognizing that sound system design is intrinsic to the delivery of safe, high quality health care, the goals generally focus on system-wide solutions, wherever possible.
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