post-acute

We’re changing things up for our newest episode of Be Advised, the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group podcast.

In this episode, we are featuring an interview with the Mary Free Bed Education Academy. The conversation is previewing their upcoming stroke conference for rehabilitation and health care professionals.

Included in the discussion is Dr. Cad Shannon, Director of Learning and Organizational Development for Mary Free Bed and two guest speakers from the conference. Those speakers are Peter Muszkiewicz, MT-BC, and Bailey Schulte, MT-BC, Music Therapist, both Inpatient Recreation Therapists for Mary Free Bed.

Dr. Shannon shares about the Mary Free Bed Education Academy and their live online courses, interprofessional grand rounds, conferences and workshops.

Muszkiewicz and Schulte talk about their class during the stroke workshop, and how they will share about the history of music therapy, and how it’s used to help patients in stroke rehabilitation recover.

It’s a great quick conversation to help listeners learn about the Education Academy. Find more info about their upcoming offerings and large library of videos at educationacademy.maryfreebed.com.

For questions about this or other Be Advised podcasts, email us at: AdvisoryGroup@maryfreebed.com 

Find out more about the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. 

Want to grow your business and increase access for patients? The Be Advised podcast is back with a new episode to answer your referral questions. 

Mary Free Bed’s Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, highlights all things referral development with Mary Free Bed’s Jeff Munford. He shares his experience and insight from 15 years working in access and business development at the rehabilitation hospital. 

Jeff currently serves as vice president of patient access and referral development for Mary Free Bed.  

He joined Mary Free Bed in 2008 to lead an expanding business development and marketing team. In that time, he’s led a team through immense growth as Mary Free Bed expanded from an 80-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Grand Rapids, to a system of over 400 beds throughout the Midwest. 

Be Advised is hosted by Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. On this episode of Be Advised, Joyal and Jeff discuss:  

• Data driven decisions 
• Best practices  
• Outcome sharing 
• Response times 

For questions about this or other Be Advised podcasts, email us at: AdvisoryGroup@maryfreebed.com  

Find out more about the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. 

Thinking about accreditation for your rehabilitation facility? The newest Be Advised podcast is for you. 

Mary Free Bed’s Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, is diving into the benefits of CARF accreditation for health and human service organizations. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) has been accrediting organizations since 1966 and has over 1,800 accredited locations globally. 

The guest for this episode is Terrence Carolan, managing director of medical rehabilitation for CARF International. Carolan has more than 20 years of experience in the field of medical rehabilitation as an administrator, provider, and educator. He holds a master’s degree in physical therapy. 

Before joining CARF as the managing director, Terrence was a CARF surveyor for over 10 years. In his managing director role, Terrence oversees CARF’s medical rehabilitation area which includes standards for:  

• Inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation 
• Home and community services, 
• Residential rehabilitation and vocational services 
• Interdisciplinary pain and occupational rehabilitation 
• Independent evaluation services and case management 

 CARF also accredits specialty programs in the areas of: 

• Pediatrics 
• Amputation 
• Brain injury 
• Cancer 
• Spinal Cord Injury 
• Stroke 

 Be Advised is hosted by Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. On this episode of Be Advised, Joyal and Terrence discuss: 

• What makes CARF Unique? 
• The national and international span of CARF 
• Common questions about accreditation process 
• Advice for first time accreditation 
• What’s next for CARF in five years 

For questions about this or other Be Advised podcasts, email us at: advisorygroup@maryfreebed.com

Find out more about the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group.

In the latest episode of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, we talk with Paula Digby, owner of AQ-IQ consulting. She has years of experience helping providers achieve accurate reimbursement and an effective revenue cycle.

Digby has worked with the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group and Mary Free Bed on several initiatives, including our Educational Academy offerings for the PPS IRF-PRO Labs, clinical documentation improvement, coding and consulting.

Recently, inpatient rehabilitation facilities have been under increased scrutiny and targeted by audits searching for improper payments and potential fraud. The rehabilitation organizations are asked to provide documentation and proof that their payments are correct and meet the regulatory requirements.

We’ve invited Digby onto the show to share some of the insights and tips she gives organizations facing similar scrutinies. On this episode of Be Advised, Paula discusses:

• The potential pitfalls within documentation and coding
• Common questions from organizations working with her
• Error rates and financial impacts
• When do organizations find coding issues
• How poor documentation impacts reimbursement
• And more! 

 Be Advised is hosted by Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. Pavey and Digby have worked together for the past nine years. You can tell from the episode that they have a wealth of knowledge and experience in this space, and it made a great conversation! 

In a very special episode of Mary Free Bed’s Advisory Group podcast, Be Advised, we are joined by Airica Steed Ed.D, MBA, RN. Steed is the incoming President and CEO of Metro Health System in Cleveland Ohio and former Executive Vice President & System Chief Operating Officer of Sinai Chicago Health System, President of Mount Sinai and Sinai Children’s Hospital.

Steed has been listed in 2020 Modern Healthcare among its “Top 25 healthcare Innovators” and last year named as a “Top 25 Minority Leader”. Becker’s Hospital Review named this innovative and dynamic leader as one of the “Top 120 Women Hospital & Health System Leaders to Know” and placed her on their list of “75 Black Healthcare Leaders to know.”

In her role at Sinai Chicago, Steed led cultural, clinical and operational transformations that led to $200M in improvements over 3 years, while achieving substantial improvements in publicly reported quality measures.

During her conversation on Be Advised she discusses:

• Her career track and how she evolved into her leadership roles
• What her passions in healthcare are
• What health care innovation means to her
• How post-acute care can support overall health equity
• What value she sees in post-acute partnerships
• And more!

Be Advised is hosted by Joyal Pavey, vice president of the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group. 

For questions about this or other Be Advised podcasts, email us at: advisorygroup@maryfreebed.com

Find out more about the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group.

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In our latest episode of “Be Advised,” we discuss home health and skilled nursing facilities and how they partner with inpatient rehabilitation programs.

Home care, sub-acute, and skilled nursing facilities play a vital role in the post-acute continuum of care, and when that care is well coordinated, patients can sustain better outcomes.

But, how do you actually help patients and staff with the changing reimbursement models and the current health care environments?

 Our guests on this episode of “Be Advised,” the Mary Free Bed Advisory Group Podcast, will help us answer that! 

 For this episode you’ll meet Kiersten Cudney, LNHA, MPA, Administrator for Mary Free Bed Sub-Acute Rehabilitation, and Trey Kubizna, Regional Director and Administrator for Mary Free Bed at Home.

For questions about this or other “Be Advised” podcasts email us at: advisorygroup@maryfreebed.com 

Advisory Group: https://www.maryfreebed.com/about-us/mary-free-bed-advisory-group/ 

Mary Free Bed Sub-Acute Rehabilitation: https://www.maryfreebed.com/conditions/sub-acute/ 

Mary Free Bed at Home: https://www.maryfreebed.com/mary-free-bed-at-home/ 

Dr. Lydia Cristobal DNP, LNHA, RN-BC, NEA-BC is a healthcare executive who has worked in various health care settings and specializes in post-acute and geriatric care.  She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing administration from New York University and Doctor of Nursing practice from Yale University.  Her credentials are licensed nursing home administrator, board certified in gerontology, and board certified in advanced nurse executive practice.  A Veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, she continues to serve in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Major in the Nurse Corps at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey.  She is currently the administrator of a hospital-based skilled nursing facility in Hudson County, New Jersey.
 
Topics Discussed:

• Organizational stewardship
• High turnover rates in nursing home leadership
• Changing the way geriatric care is delivered
• Evidence-based practice

Lydia's Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lydiacristobal/detail/contact-info/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gemcristobal