The top stories from McKnight's Long-Term Care News, November 2012
A new Senate bill would require long-term care facilities to report monthly on antipsychotic use.
A former top regulator scolded long-term care lobbyists before a crowd of nearly 2,000 influential investors and providers recently.
Unlike other real estate options, seniors housing continued to grow throughout the Great Recession.
Of all the uncertainties in politics, one thing is concrete: When the November elections are over, a lame duck period will have officially begun in ...
Not content to rest on its laurels, the award-winning McKnights.com has been significantly upgraded.
As pressure from federal regulators increases, the senior vice president of quality and regulatory affairs for the nation's largest nursing home group is offering guidance ...
Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions, a ...
ALABAMA - Voters in mid-September overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to use more than $400 million from a rarely tapped source to shore up the ...
Wound care treatment requires far more than a one-size-fits all approach. Here, front-line experts share some hard-won insights for optimal care
Activities such as Wii bowling are popular with residents in long-term care facilities, but getting a return on investment requires marketing and diligence
Nursing homes lose a ton of money on Medicaid, which I spent a lot of time at CMS talking about.
The answer to this question is that signage can be used and is expected.
Prevalence is defined as a cross-sectional count of the number of cases at a specific point in time, or the number of people with pressures ...
Researchers have identified a new stem cell population in the skin epidermis that is responsible for tissue repair. The finding could lead to new wound ...
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown function for a protein that could add to the arsenal of inflammation-fighting drugs.
I am a seasoned director of nursing, but I'm currently having problems with newer nurses focusing on their hourly pay rate vs. the quality of ...
While influenza vaccination rates among healthcare workers have increased overall, fewer long-term care facility employees are being vaccinated, a government survey has found.
Nurse managers who give verbal expectations about safety protocols or who offer constructive responses to admitted errors have lower overall error rates in their facilities, ...
Rehospitalization is another way that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is looking to cut Medicare costs.
A miscalculation by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services means that more than 1,400 hospitals with comparatively high readmissions rates will lose more federal ...
A new federal work plan declares that even the Medicare contractors charged with keeping close tabs on long-term care facilities will be put under the ...
After struggling over a case involving a rehabilitation claim, a U.S. Court of Appeals has decided in favor of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...
The child of a deceased long-term care resident is not bound to an arbitration agreement because she signed it on behalf of her mother — ...
The senior living industry currently has very favorable supply and demand dynamics. Occupancy is trending higher and financing avenues are opening.
Claridge Court is the latest Lifespace community to redesign its facility toward the Six Dimensions of Wellness to promote residents' health
Gathering and using effective resident and family feedback can go far in improving quality of care and services.
Filmmaker Stu Maddux is determined to make long-term care more sensitive to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents.
Sarah Maxwell says her job became a lot easier with the introduction of the Pivot-Rehab 1000 swivel bed from Med-Mizer.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is increasingly looking to telemedicine as a way to improve care while reducing fiscal outlays.
Margaret was just one of those people. She always wore a smile and a bright yellow sweater, and staff and residents at her assisted living ...
Government health officials have released a tracking tool that can help nursing homes monitor healthcare-acquired infections.
People who are implanted with cardioverter defibrillators should be carefully monitored and screened for depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to officials with the ...
Seniors housing continues a comeback, but operators need to be prepared for the expanding role of managed care, experts said during the National Investment Center ...
Genesis HealthCare is partnering with Johns Hopkins Hospital's Bayview campus in a $20 million project that may force many analysts to revamp skilled care bed ...
American HealthTech unveiled a redesigned order management system at the American Health Care Association show in Tampa, FL.
McKesson Medical-Surgical Minnesota Supply Inc. and PointRight Inc. recently announced an agreement to bring analytics and solutions aimed at reducing readmissions to the long-term care ...
Conventional wisdom holds that the long-term care sector is short on innovation. But there's one little problem with this view. It happens to be dead ...
Not all association conventions are remembered equally. Some have dynamite entertainment, some a few great speakers. Often, it doesn't go much beyond that.
There may be nobody more imbued in the policy of Medicaid than Matt Salo.
