In a move to grapple with seemingly endless increases in healthcare spending, the U.S. healthcare industry is in the midst of undergoing a fundamental transformation in the way physicians are ...

Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a high volume of referred patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias may work harder to manage care transitions with less availability of resources ...

PHILADELPHIA (September 25, 2023) – Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care ...

Kyle Lamb, MD, associate medical director of population health at Vancouver Clinic, discusses how super-utilization trends have changed since the start of COVID-19, the necessity of transitional care ...

Transitional care — a set of actions put in place when a patient leaves a hospital or skilled nursing facility — is a vital part of the care journey and one that has increased in importance as more ...

The Nurse Management of Care Transitions specialty track prepares nurses at the master’s level to improve health outcomes through clinical coordination and management of patient care transitions both ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, PharMerica launched Continue Care Transitional Care Management Program to address gaps in care during residents’ transitions from skilled nursing facilities to ...

After hospitalization, more than 1.5 million older adults each year receive postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Transitional care services, designed to prepare older SNF patients (and ...