Monday, January 12, 2009

McKnight's Daily Update

By the editors of McKnight's Long-Term Care News and McKnight's Assisted Living

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Supplemental compliance program guidance available for nursing facilities

October 13, 2008

The Office of Inspector General has supplemented 2000 compliance program guidance for nursing facilities.
 

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EPA to ask nursing homes about unused medication disposal

October 13, 2008

The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to study the effects of unused medications on the environment, and they're enlisting the help of nursing homes and other healthcare facilities around the country in their research.
 

Good nurse, bad nurse: Movie portrayals of nurses have changed over time, study finds

October 13, 2008

There is Florence Nightingale. Then there is the loathsome Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." Depictions of nurses on the silver screen have shifted dramatically over the last century, according to a new study. And those portrayals have affected nurses in real life.
 

Guest Columns: A new look at bed-rail entrapments

October 13, 2008

Side rails are often seen as the source of bed-rail entrapments. But people might not realize that entrapment can occur when the head- or foot-end of the mattress is being raised or lowered, particularly in an electric bed.
 

Videos from AHCA show now available on McKnights.com

October 13, 2008

The editorial staff of McKnight's recently talked to key nursing home industry leaders at the American Health Care Association's annual conference in Nashville. Video interviews with Bruce Yarwood, Dr. Neil Kurtz, Rick Matros, Paul Diaz, John Short, Larry Lane, Bill Hartung, Charlotte Eliopoulos, Peter Clendenin and Susan Feeney are available at www.mcknights.com. Click on the blue "Videos" link at the top of the home page, or go to http://www.mcknights.com/McKnights-Video/section/558/. More videos will be posted this week from the annual conference of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging in Philadelphia.
 

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"What do you think of the new five-star rating system for nursing homes so far?"

Please send your answer to Associate Editor Liza Berger at liza.berger@mcknights.com. Your answer to this question will be gathered with others and may appear in an upcoming issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News.



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