Sky High Certified Nursing Assistant Turnover
CNA’S & High Turnover
High turnover among long-term care facilities has been a long time issue now. For many years now directors, owners, nurses, and residents have agreed that keeping these facilities properly staffed is a challenge faced by many. Certified nursing assistants are difficult to find and keep however, a top agency stated that going forward this will be a top priority. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services stated that this issue is something they would like to shift their attention towards in the future. Certified nursing assistants represent about 70% of[…]
Five Gut Healing Recipes
In an effort to help our clients stay healthy and avoid from using their long term care insurance policy as long as possible, we are committed to featuring health tips and tricks found on the health tab of our website. Here you can find news, videos, and “Feature Friday’s Healthy Recipes”, available to you every Friday.
This Friday’s Featured recipe includes five healthy and delicious gut friendly recipes for you to try! These recipes can be beneficial to those suffering from leaky gut in healing the gut. (Please note none of these recipes belong to LTC[…]
The Challenges of Aging
The Aging Body
As we age we become even more at risk for developing minor to severe health issues. Even those who follow a healthy regimen of eating right, exercising daily, and taking care of themselves can sometimes run into health challenges. Sometimes we get older and our bodies begin to drastically change as well as run into unexpected health issues. Many of us will wonder why is that? While some of these changes may be inevitable, hereditary, or circustancial, there are a couple of other factor we can look at.
Immune system
One of[…]
What is “Leaky Gut”
Leaky Gut
Have you ever heard of the term leaky gut? Perhaps you have as, it seems it is being discussed now more than ever. It is even estimated that about 80% of Americans suffer from a leaky gut. Even so you may be wondering what in the world is a leaky gut and is my gut actually leaking!? So the answer is actually maybe so!
Leaky gut syndrome refers to increased intestinal permeability. This occurs in your small intestines when the tight junctions responsible for filtering bacteria, toxins, and undigested food[…]
Federal Vaccine Program For LTC Facilities
Federal Vaccine Program
Long term care facilities are being advised to participate in a federal vaccine program which will provide complimentary Covid-19 vaccines to all staff and residents. As stated by the department of health and human services and defense, large pharmacy retailers such as Walgreens and CVS have come together to administer these free vaccines. The federal government plans to fund all the costs for these vaccines and says delivering them to seniors is of top priority. CVS and Walgreens will then individually bill insurers medicare or medicaid for the costs of[…]
Paying For Long Term Care
Your future long term care
If you are like most individuals you probably haven’t given extensive thought to figuring out who you will pay for you future long term care. In fact, most people only begin to consider long term care at time of placing their parents in long term care and again when they themselves actually need it. This can be counterproductive given that someone 65 today has a 70% chance of needing long term care. Women on Average can expect to need at least 3.7 years of care whereas man can[…]
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