Podcast Episodes

Using SBAR Communication in Infection Control

The SBAR communication technique — which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation — is the gold standard for sharing informat…

3 years, 10 months ago

Successful Strategies to Improve Staff Influenza Vaccination Rates

People who work in long-term care know that staff vaccinations are key to stopping the spread of viruses like influenza. But how do you increase vacc…

3 years, 11 months ago

Software Solutions for Skilled Nursing Facilities

How can technology help skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) enhance quality of care and improve resident outcomes? In today's episode, Chris Gerace Joh…

3 years, 11 months ago

Staff Health Reporting and Vaccine Hesitancy

Moving into the fall months, long-term care facilities must prepare for an increase in COVID-19 and flu cases. What can your facility do to keep staf…

3 years, 11 months ago

Medication Therapy Management

Listen to this podcast to get a Delaware pharmacist's perspective about the Medication Therapy Management program being offered by the Delaware Pharm…

3 years, 11 months ago

CMS's Five-Star Quality Rating System: 2022 Staffing Measure Update

Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the staffing rating methodology for its Five-Star Quality Rating System for Nu…

3 years, 11 months ago

Using QAPI in Nursing Homes Part 3 – Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)

When you've identified a problem in your facility as well as the root of its cause, how do you create a course of action to correct it? In this final…

3 years, 11 months ago

Using QAPI in Nursing Homes Part 2 – Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

So you've identified a problem you'd like to fix using the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) process. Now what? 

In this second episode…

4 years ago

Using QAPI in Nursing Homes Part 1 - Brainstorming

To give residents the highest level of care, nursing homes need to course-correct when problems occur – or identify problems before an adverse event …

4 years ago

COVID-19 Variants, Vaccines & Therapeutics

Methods to prevent and treat COVID-19 are changing almost as quickly as the virus evolves new variants. 

What is the status of COVID-19 variants, vacc…

4 years ago