Proprietors Must Step-Up to Prevent Medicare Fraud
Small-scale assisted living and adult day care providers must have in place a specific plan to guard resident and program participant information. Situations where this becomes a larger challenge include occasions when you have to share Medicare and other info with visiting professionals. These includes dentists, medical doctors including psychiatrists, home health agencies and medical […]
In Arranging Admissions; Stick to Firm Set of Right Principles
Often when the proprietor of a smaller assisted living program is approached by a family or guardian regarding placement, the situation may border on desperate. Perhaps the prospective resident has a psychiatric history and while in a psychiatric facility for medication adjustments and observation, their prior residence has decided not to allow them to return. […]
5 Keys to Success in Urban Assisted Living
Any professional or even casual observer in long-term care knows we need assisted living in local communities, inner-city neighborhoods. These programs assist in keeping families together and/or reasonably close to one another and strengthen urban America. While most entrepreneurs enter this realm of commercial caregiving with the best motives and reasonably well orchestrated plans, we […]
Unchecked Emotions Will Lead to Lots of Grief in Care Business….
Martin was beyond excited to be starting his new life. He took a buy-out offer from his manufacturing employer and invested about 1/3 of those funds to start his new assisted living business. He was working to house eight persons in a ranch home, all of whom would have a degree of medical fragility. His […]
A Way to make Early Splash in Multi-Faceted Case Management
I have long advocated for the support of case managers and for reimbursement to those who help the medically fragile elderly make conscientious long-term care decisions. Medicare needs to open the floodgates for this important level of professional counseling. Many enter the world of case management each year. I recall my involvement with a focus […]