ECRI Strategies

ECRI Institute and Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging (ALTC) have joined in collaboration to bring ALTC readers periodic articles on topics in risk management, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI), and safety...

​​​​​​​As the baby boomer generation ages into retirement, the United States will increasingly need independent living and home care solutions for this population. One factor that could help aging in place become a reality for more older...

Facilities by their nature are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a near certainty that construction will occur while resident care activities are ongoing.

Victor Lane Rose, MBA, NHA, FCPP, CPASRM, discusses how aging services providers that choose to use mediation, arbitration, or both can optimize their approach by understanding available options and protections for ADR and designing a system...

While the concept of “behavioral health” emerged over 40 years ago, the meaning of this phrase has evolved. Today, many people think of behavioral health as synonymous with mental health, but there is a subtle difference between the 2 terms.

ECRI Institute advises organizations to take an approach that combines setting realistic expectations, encouraging use of advance directives, and training staff to reduce all of these risks.

Organizational processes that lead to mismatches are potential root causes that can manifest as many different types of problems throughout any care and service delivery system. 

Picture-taking and other forms of imaging and recording are commonplace in long-term care (LTC) facilities, and risks abound from potential violations of the privacy and security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...

Fifty percent of NH residents have significant cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer disease, and many do not have relatives living nearby who can monitor their health and safety.