Detecting Patient Care ‘Land-mines’
To kick off the start of 2024, Probari's team of nurses reviewed the past year's top interventions
Managing COPD Exacerbation In-House
November is National COPD Awareness Month and with the respiratory virus season getting into full swing, we want to share our tips for managing your residents with COPD
Assessing and Managing Pain for Residents with Dementia
As dementia changes progress, a residentʼs ability to communicate pain or discomfort can become more difficult.
Evading Exacerbations - Keys for COPD Management in LTC
Caring for residents with COPD should maximize independence and minimize exacerbations.
Breaking Down the Difference: Palliative vs. Hospice Care
Many LTC staff, residents, and families have heard of palliative care but are unclear on what it really means or how it differs from hospice care
Focusing on Efficient Pressure Injury Prevention
Prevention, early detection, and treatment for skin alterations are key to quality care in the nursing home. Knowing this, Probari nurses review all skin issues and send recommendations for early intervention. Our team has compiled a guide to help your facility more effectively prevent avoidable skin breakdown.
Making Heart Failure Management More Manageable
Probari nurses identify opportunities to optimize care for acute conditions as well as common chronic conditions we manage in the nursing home setting.
Tricky Transitions
When being discharged after a hospital stay, you want to trust your next destination will be quick, safe, and sustainable. Today, nursing homes are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill this responsibility for their residents.
Practicing geriatrician, nursing home physician and Probari CMO, Dr. Kathleen Unroe, was featured in a Modern Healthcare article, “Transitions to Post Acute-Care are Getting Even More Challenging”, where she sheds light on these common admission pain points facing nursing homes today.
Probari perspective - The 5 Elements of an Admission Review
Let’s face it - nursing home operators and clinicians are often set up for failure when it comes to safely and effectively transferring a resident into facilities. If reports are called at all, they can be brief and missing key details. Discharge packets are either too small (without the needed information) or too big (so much info you don’t know where to start). The nurse is given an impossible decision between finding the necessary resident information or taking care of the patient.
Transitions to post-acute care are getting even more challenging
When being discharged after a hospital stay, you want to trust your next destination will be quick, safe, and sustainable. Today, nursing homes are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill this responsibility for their residents. External factors limit the ability of a nursing home to swiftly place a resident and assure they are receiving personalized quality care. In addition, due to gaps in reimbursement nursing homes are incentivized to admit short-term residents just to stay in business.