Rehab Trends: Follow These SNF Providers’ Lead to Keep Residents’ Rehab Attendance on Track

Also: Watch out for this potential problem.

Sunshine Terrace Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Facility, which used to provide therapy six days a week, has hired two extra therapists so that it can provide therapy services on Sundays, reports Konie Murray, RN, RAC-CT, the MDS coordinator for the facility in Logan, Utah. "I think providing therapy seven days a week helps the patients," Murray says. However, "some patients will refuse therapy on Sunday and say this is my day of rest."

In addition, "we talk about the patients at a long weekly meeting and then briefly during a short daily meeting if the [...]

- Published on 2012-01-27