Long-Term Care: Resources for emergency preparedness and everyday communication for long-term care
Long‐term care facilities offer a high level of care on a 24‐hour basis, so you have many of the same continuity‐of‐operations needs as a traditional hospital — with the unique responsibility of caring for long-term residents. Your administrators and staff need fast, flexible communication options to manage continuous changes in operational and patient needs as well as keep residents aware and informed as severe weather and other emergent events unfold.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Checklist
Use this CMS emergency preparedness checklist to ensure that your healthcare emergency management program is comprehensive and compliant. This checklist can guide emergency managers and emergency preparedness team members to get the most out of your current plans, policies and procedures, and community resources.
Best Practices for Communication and Coordination in Long-Term Care
Care coordination in long-term care facilities is growing more complex. Learn how healthcare team communication needs to evolve to meet the challenges that arise from patients in long-term care facilities living longer with more chronic conditions.
Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Consulting Services
Assess your emergency management programs based on your needs, your type of facility, metrics relevant to your organization, your locale, your coalition and your jurisdiction. Healthcare emergency management requires continuous improvement, compliance and best practices. Every service is customized based on your needs and your goals.
CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule | Self-Assessment Quiz for Long-Term Care
Take this short self-assessment to identify the next steps your long-term are organization needsto take to achieve readiness for the CMS emergency preparedness rule. We’ll email your results and suggest resources you can use based on your current level of emergency preparedness.
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Exercising and evaluating CMS emergency preparedness plans
Testing, training and continuous improvement are requirements of CMS emergency preparedness. Read this McKnight's Long-Term Care News article to learn learn 9 steps to a comprehensive emergency preparedness program.
The State of CMS Emergency Preparedness Readiness in Long-Term Care Facilities | Infographic
See how long-term care providers rate their readiness to comply with the CMS emergency preparedness rule and a CMS survey. Compare your facility and learn where lie your opportunities for improvement.
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: Building a compliant emergency preparedness program
Testing, training and continuous improvement are requirements of CMS emergency preparedness. Read this McKnight's Long-Term Care News article to learn learn 9 steps to a comprehensive emergency preparedness program.
CMS Emergency Preparedness for Long-Term Care (Webinars)
Watch now a three-part video series on the CMS emergency preparedness rule exclusively for long-term care (LTC) facilities. Watch any one, two or all three videos.
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: How to get ready for a CMS emergency preparedness survey
In most cases facilities that strive for excellent care and operations will find that their aims are aligned with emergency preparedness requirements. Read this McKnight’s Long-Term Care News article to more about how to get ready for a CMS emergency preparedness survey.
LiveProcess Delivers on CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule for Long-Term Care
The CMS emergency preparedness rule expanded requirements previously limited to hospitals to include long-term care (LTC) facilities, including skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and nursing homes. LTC facilities are now expected to develop an emergency plan based on an all-hazards risk assessment, establish policies and procedures for continuity of care and essential services, track patients’ location, create a communication plan, test the plan and train staff. See how LiveProcess Emergency Manager can help.
Communication Solutions for Staffing in Long-Term Care and Nursing Homes
Learn how you can keep staffing levels up despite unplanned absences, support an aging workforce, stay accountable to residents and their families, and retain high-quality employees with clinical communication and collaboration solutions.
Improving Communication in a Nursing Home for Residents & Staff
Three communication challenges and solutions specific to skilled nursing and long-term care nursing homes to improve staff and residents’ well-being.
LiveProcess Communicator for Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care: Improve resource utilization, efficiency and patient satisfaction
LiveProcess Communicator for Nursing Homes & Long-Term Care Improve resource utilization, efficiency and patient satisfaction Nursing homes and long-term care providers work within a complex web of skilled professionals, service providers and vendors, public...
Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness for Extreme Weather
Sheltering in place, planning for power, and collaborating with community partners are all part of CMS emergency preparedness compliance for long-term care facilities. Learn about the four vital pieces in the communication plan required for CMS emergency preparedness compliance. As a healthcare facility, CMS requires you to prepare for the problems you can anticipate and develop emergency preparedness plans to mitigate the damage.
CMS Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care (LTC)
Find out about the CMS emergency preparedness rule for long-term (LTC) facilities, including nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) and more. A LTC facility is the home of many patients, because of their long length of stay. The facilities’ relationship with patients and their families is shaped by this unique circumstance, and as a result, the CMS emergency preparedness rule has an extra requirement for LTC facilities. Get the details in this post.
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