Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Medicare and nursing homes

The New York Times reports that Medicare's coverage of short-term care rather than long-term care, combined with hospitals' new tendency to release patients sooner than recommended in order to cut costs, has contributed to a situation where neither long-term care nor short-term care nursing home residents are getting the care they need.

The Hebrew Home at Riverdale takes a queue from Adam Sandler in their program to make good-morning videos for their Alzheimer's and dementia patients, featuring loved ones.

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