The Trecs Institute

“Description: equipment rentals. Amount: 696. Description: meetings & seminars. Amount: 4,110. Description: travel. Amount: 88,364. Description: office supplies. Amount: 14,862. Total to form 990-ez, line 16: 108,032.”

“The trecs institute is currently completing a study looking at utilizing virtual physician services enabled through technology to prevent avoidable snf to hospital transfers. This is a 2015 grant implemented in nyc. A cms grant was also received and will be starting in the november 2015 time from implementing virtual physician services in 4 florida snf's to evaluate quality of care impact as well as economic impact on the participating facilities as well as the medicare program itself. Additional grants are also in preparation stages for evaluating interventions to reduce dry mouth in living term care nursing facility residents w/ the goal of reducing bacteria levels & the resulting respiratory infections that lead to hospitalization. Another grant application will be submitted in december looking at providing blood transfusions in snfs & avoiding sending patients to hospitals for this service. Finally, the trecs institute is serving as a catalyst to host a national summit on redesigning america's long term care system. The bundled payment program will bring dramatic changes to the industry and in essence separate snfs into two catergories .....the preferred providers selected by hospitals and caring for medicare and medicare managed care patients, and those not selected who will only receive medicaid long term care residents. Because medicaid in almost every state pays less then the actual cost of providing care. This summit is being held to bring together the best minds in the industry in an attempt to recognize the many weakness and cost inefficient practices currently taking place in our snfs (the survey process for example). The non-preferred snfs will face serious financial consequences leading to significant reductions in the quality of care. A grant for evaluating the ability of circadian light in ling term care to reduce sun down syndrome and improve providing care is also being submitted for funding.”