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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

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Home Health NOW - The Virtual Home Health of the Year

Home Health Now is HCPro’s exclusive online summit taking place on February 18, 2021. The half-day event features sessions on topics that matter to home health professionals, like industry updates, COVID-19, vaccines, and more.

Home Health

CGS releases checklist for redetermination submission

CGS administrators have released a checklist for redetermination submission for home health and hospice. This checklist is intended to ensure agencies provide all of the needed information in order to avoid being dismissed due to an incomplete form. To view the home health and hospice redetermination submission checklist, visit https://bit.ly/3sPZxTx. Visit the appeals/redetermination web page …

Featured Podcast

Quality Measures and Vaccination Programs

Today we talk with Annette Sanders, MSN, RN, CLNC, senior consultant at LW Consulting about new proposed quality measures and about challenges and considerations to think about while running a vaccination program in your facility. Listen below or at: Soundcloud Spotify Apple Podcasts Post-Acute Advisor · Infection Reporting and COVD-19 Vaccination Programs

Skilled Nursing Facility

New report finds low occupancy rates at SNFs in all 48 continental states

All 48 continental states had an occupancy rate lower than 80% in 2020, new data from CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) finds. CLA studied SNF occupancy trends across the U.S. and found that New York had the highest average occupancy in 2020 at 79%, and Texas had the lowest at 56%. The study also found that Massachusetts had …