Speech Therapy’s Skill in Coding Cognitive Impairment Beyond the BIMs
The Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) has changed how many of us identify cognitive impairments. From a reimbursement standpoint, it has led many to assume that reimbursement for cognition is solely dependent on a patient score <13 on the BIMs. Just because you...
3 Tips for Feeding Patients with Dementia
Skilled nursing facility staffing in the wake of the pandemic and the great resignation has been a struggle. This is irrespective if your building is a large metropolitan facility or a small rural building. Each SNF has its unique difficulties and ways of...
Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuroplasticity, and their Relationship
“If the Human Brain Were So Simple That We Could Understand It, We Would Be So Simple That We Couldn’t” -Emerson Pugh Our brains endlessly perceive, process, plan, organize and remember. Cognition, the mental process of acquiring knowledge and...
Is Your SNF Speech Therapy Department Understaffed?
Whether or not your SNF speech therapy department is staffed correctly is a great question. It is one that I am asked often by administrators, facility owners, and DORs. The short answer is always, it depends. As I am sure everyone reading this knows that...Our Dedicated Speech Pathologists:
