A new partnership aims to give skilled nursing facilities a leg up in preventing readmissions by facilitating the transmission of patient data in as close to real time as possible.
If successful, it could boost resident quality of life — and help SNFs win back some of the 2% of Medicare reimbursements that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will start withholding on Oct. 1.
Consonus Healthcare, the therapy arm of assisted living and post-acute provider Marquis Companies, announced a partnership on Feb. 27 with Collective Medical Technologies to bring the latter’s PreManage care collaboration platform to more than 300 Consonus skilled nursing facilities. Marquis is based in Milwaukie, Oregon and owns and operates 24 post-acute and assisted living facilities, 17 of which are SNFs.
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