Category: Clinical
4 Ways to Protect Older Ones from Loneliness
Do you have a few residents who love to visit your therapy gym long after they were discharged from skilled services? Did you ever wonder why they try to engage in the energy and conversations which flow in your space?
What About Cognitive Skills Coding?
What in the wild, wild world of rehab is going on here? There has been a mysterious cloud of confusion around the cognitive skills code for some time. We had 97532, not a Beverly Hills zip code, but a CPT
5 Practical Ways to Improve Interdisciplinary Communication
Are your goals practical and applicable to your patient’s environment? Does the patient demonstrate adequate follow through with the skills learned in therapy? Have goals been modified to meet the changing needs of the patient? These are some of the
Seeing Wholeness Over Weakness
Do you remember when your light bulb starting to shine…the moment your life’s direction was aligned with the field of occupational therapy? For many clinicians, their career choice was based on a specific event, individual or experience which opened their
Occupational Therapy Month: Celebrating 101 Years
During the month of April, Occupational Therapy Month recognizes all the benefits this specialized healthcare provides. This year is all about Empowering Independence. As an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, you are part of a vitally important profession that helps
OT: Helping Residents Get Back to Doing the Things They Love
OT: Helping Residents Get Back to Doing the Things They Love Occupational Therapy: it is the only profession that focuses specifically on helping people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic
LC-Do or LC-Don’t…
Do you LCD? Lie Comfortably Down? Lift Crusty Dumpsters? Learn Creative Dancing? Limited Carb Diet? If you do any or all of these things, good for you, but that’s not what we mean in this instance. LCD=Local Coverage Determination A
Working in Silos: The 3 Lives of a Cancer Patient
Working in Silos: The Three Lives of a Cancer Patient This is a story of an extremely active seventy-year-old man who was diagnosed with tonsil cancer that produced a tumor in his neck. This man volunteers 40 hours a week
What is the Patients Over Paperwork Program?
Several of our clinical teams recently experienced something new…CMS representatives arrived at their facility to assess compliance with a new initiative Patients Over Paperwork. In preparation for this process, review the following information, taken directly from www.cms.gov What is