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Long-term care residents are at increased risk for TB infection and TB disease. Insufficient screening and prevention policies can put residents, employees and the community at risk for TB exposure.


During this podcast, Rita Khoury, MD, Clinical Lab Director at Acculabs, NJ, will discuss strategies to reduce the risk of TB in long-term care facilities. She’ll also describe her experiences evaluating the efficacy and accuracy of TB blood tests as an alternative to traditional skin testing. You’ll learn about best practices for TB screening, CDC testing guidelines and the importance of TB prevention for both staff and residents.

While the Medicare Advantage program has flaws, it offers more value to older adults than the alternative, Sachin Jain, MD, CEO of the SCAN Group, a not-for-profit healthcare organization with MA plans in five states, told McKnight’s Home Care. There is room for improvement for MA, which is under intense scrutiny, but it ultimately is better than traditional Medicare, which has coverage gaps and does not have defined benefits for many social determinants of health, he said in a Newsmakers podcast.

In this episode, Bharat Monteiro, GM, Senior Living & Long-Term Care at MatrixCare, teams up with Chris Pugliese, Director of Interoperability at MatrixCare, to uncover the pressing challenges and promising opportunities in achieving seamless transitions within long-term care. Join them as they provide actionable insights and strategies to empower providers in navigating the complex landscape of interoperability, driving tangible improvements in resident care and outcomes.

When it comes to crafting home care policies such as hospital-at-home, family caregivers want a seat at the table, according to Paurvi Bhatt, president and chief impact officer for the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers. They want to be able to have input in the design of such programs because they often ultimately bear the caregiving burden, she told McKnight’s Home Care in a Newsmakers podcast.

Paulo Rocha, Head of Sales at Miele Professional, will join McKnight’s Senior Living News to explore the growing trend of on-premise laundry in commercial operations.  Rocha will highlight how processing laundry onsite can help senior care facilities meet and exceed quality and safety standards, while also enhancing efficiency and making operations more sustainable. Rocha will talk about Miele’s new Benchmark on-premise washers and dryers, designed for use in senior care environments, and explain how these machines are revolutionizing the way senior care facilities manage their laundry needs.

Aaron Marcum, an entrepreneur, home care investor and founder of technology firm Home Care Pulse, is not pleased about the 80/20 provision released in the Medicaid Access Rule this week. He ranked the provision, which requires that 80% of Medicaid payments for home health, personal care and homemaker services be spent on workers’ compensation, somewhere “between bad and catastrophic.” It will force a lot of home care providers to drop the federal-state program and move to care funded by private pay and long-term care insurance, he told McKnight’s Home Care in a Newsmakers podcast.