As four nursing home facilities in Hampden County prepare to close, 22News talking to Congressman Richard Neal about the issue. During hearings this week, families said they are having a hard time finding a new nursing facility for their loved ones, finding many facilities in our area are not accepting patients. Neal told 22News, “There is a shortage of beds in long term care and part of the challenge is that the Medicaid supplement sometimes is not adequate for what is necessary but we certainly want to assist wherever we can.”
New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes.
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Recent CMS and CDC rulings offer hope that health systems will show more love for innovative treatments like digital therapeutics and virtual platforms.
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The Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity has developed a new tool that helps non-English patients accurately describe their pain for emergency care providers.
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