Like so many other advances, the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement mandate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is both a blessing and a curse for nursing homes. The potential ...

An initiative that should be top of mind for facilities is the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI), an extension of the Affordable Care Act that is focused on improving quality of ...

plant social worker with Banner Good Samaritan Transplant Center and Advanced Liver Disease in Phoenix. He is a member of NN&I’s Editorial Advisory Board. In 1984, The National Organ Transplant Act ...

Several years ago, I received a call from a hospital’s front desk informing me that there was a large number of men and women in suits with roll-on bags asking for me by name. The receptionist said, ...