Providing Behavioral Health Care in PACE - A Review of Federal and State Manual Regulations.

Objectives: Present analysis of the federal and state regulations that guide The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) operations and core clinical features for direction on behavioral health (BH).

Design: Review and synthesize the federal (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS]) and all publicly available state manuals according to the BH-Serious Illness Care (SIC) model domains.

Setting And Participants: The 155 PACE organizations operating in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

A single institution pre-/post-comparison after introduction of an external urinary collection device for female medical patients.

Background: External urinary collection devices (EUCDs) may serve as an alternative to indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) and decrease the rate of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). is a novel female EUCD; however, no study has definitively proven benefit regarding reduction of CAUTIs.

Aim: We sought to compare the CAUTI rate and IUC days before and after availability of the EUCD at a single institution.

Behavioral health integration in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): A scoping review.

Background: The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a community-based care model that delivers collaborative care via an interdisciplinary team to meet the medical and social needs of older adults eligible for nursing home placement. Fifty-nine percent of PACE participants are reported to have at least one psychiatric disorder. PACE organizations (POs) function through an interdisciplinary model of care, but a behavioral health (BH) provider is not a mandated role on the interdisciplinary team.

Effect of external urinary collection device implementation on female surgical patients.

Background: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are the most common hospital-acquired infection. Female external urinary collection devices (EUCDs) may be an alternative to indwelling urethral catheters (IUCs), thereby decreasing CAUTIs. However, no study has demonstrated that EUCDs can help reduce CAUTIs in female surgical patients.