Ingrid's Long Term Care Blog

Summaries of important LTC news, from Ingrid's perspective.

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Skilled Nursing Facility Five Star Rating

It’s All in the Stars…..or IS it?    In 1998, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a na...

How Do I Get Out of Here?

……Anticipating the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Discharge  I was in the middle of writing about a completely diffe...

The A, B, C & D of Medicare

………Information you need when planning for Long Term Care services Medicare – we all know what Medicare is, or THINK ...

What is Long Term Care?

. . . and why it’s important for you to know.   The Health Care field, including Long Term Care (LTC) uses a lot of...

What’s the Hurry?

Why hospital patients are discharged quickly, and how this affects elderly patients’ perception of the hospital. It ...

Hello and welcome to my first blog post!

  I thought it would be a good start to explain why I started Your Long Term Care Coach and my hopes for the blog an...