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requires us to have more staff to admit more people and
take care of more people faster,” he says, “because the
admitting and the care planning and the integration of
the nursing staff and therapy are much more intense. In
a fast-paced environment, you’ve got to diagnose, you’ve
got to have a care plan as quickly as possible because
these people want to go home. So we have to take care
of them so that they can regain their functionality and
make them retake their place in the community. We re-
cently contracted with two physicians to do physical re-
hab medicine within our facilities to get the best possible
rehabilitation, and review what our therapists are doing
and give them increased direction.”
And because the acuity of its residents continues to rise,
CCI has had to respond by upping the skills and certifica-
tions of its nursing staff. “We’ve been working intensely
for the last five to six years at training our nursing staff for
higher acuity. Hardly anybody did IV (intravenous) therapy
