CMS Mandates Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes Effective April 1, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a new directive aimed at curbing the spread of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) in nursing homes.
Vermont Primary Care Quality Measure Crosswalk – A New Collaborative Tool.

Providence, RI (March 27, 2024) — Healthcentric Advisors is thrilled to announce our collaboration with The Blueprint for Health, OneCare Vermont, Bi-State Primary Care Association, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont on the new 2024 Primary Care Quality Measure Crosswalk for Vermont practices.
Healthcentric Advisors Announces Infection Prevention Training to Support RI Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities.

Providence, RI (February 13, 2024) — Healthcentric Advisors recently launched a new training initiative that will provide free specialized infection prevention education to nursing home and assisted living facility employees across Rhode Island.
CVS Investment Helps Bring Remote Patient Monitoring to EBCAP

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 10, 2024 – Healthcentric Advisors was awarded a $25,000 CVS Health Foundation grant as part of its 2023 Hometown Fund, which supports the communities the company’s headquarters calls home.
HCA’s Marguerite McLaughlin Receives PBN’s “Leaders and Achievers” Recognition

Providence, RI – Healthcentric Advisors (HCA) is proud to announce that Marguerite McLaughlin, HCA’s Director of Education & Transformation, has been recognized in Providence Business News’ 2023 “Leaders and Achievers” […]
Medicare Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Services

View this guide to review coding and guidelines for the COVID-19 emergency. This information was prepared as a service to the public and is not intended to grant rights or […]
MA- RI Partnership: Update of Tools for Effective Conversations to Improve Cross-State Care
Healthcentric Advisors and Honoring Choices Massachusetts, in collaboration with the New England Healthy Living Collective, invite you to join a special virtual event for MA and RI Hospitals, nursing homes, […]
Ageism & You: Why it Matters, the Annual Thewlis Lecture on Gerontology & Geriatrics

Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. (Presented Virtually) Your beliefs about growing older, both positive and negative, can have beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on your health […]
Congratulations to Susan Dugan on Retirement from Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice

Congratulations to Susan Dugan, the Director of Quality at Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice in Rhode Island, on her upcoming retirement! Healthcentric Advisors would like to acknowledge her partnership with […]
Healthcentric Advisors Newest Board Member: Allyson Ventura-Tesillo

Our newest board member, Allyson Ventura-Tesillo, describes herself as a “Jackie of many trades.” She isn’t kidding. Ms. Ventura-Tesillo is currently earning her Master’s in Social Work at Rhode Island […]