Eli's Rehab Report
SNFs:
Consider a Full-Time PA or NP
Published on Thu Sep 24, 2009
The most frequent advice Fran Fowler, FAAHC,managing director of Health Dimensions Group in Atlanta, gives to her SNF clients is to create more of a medical model. "SNFs are going to have to upgrade the skill of their nursing staff and utilize a nurse practitioner or physician assistant," she tells Eli.
The benefits: PAs and NPs are cheaper, and with one on staff full-time, patients can be seen at much more regular intervals, Fowler says. Then, therapy and other staff have a medical expert turn to before calling a physician who may just suggest sending the patient to the hospital.
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