April, 2014:
- Beyond 'Busy': Meaning making and engagement in therapeutic activities
- Guided by our North Star: Re-starting a company
- Early to bed, early to rise ... makes us better in ethicists' eyes
- Jimmo implementation is troubled, long-term care expert says
- Current quality measures are unfair to providers serving economically disadvantaged populations, National Quality Forum tells CMS
- People with dementia are 20% more likely to be rehospitalized, antipsychotic use increases risk, researchers find
- MHA adds Siciliano
- Brookdale, HCP to create $1.2 billion CCRC venture
- HD Supply releases catalog
- New diabetes screening device used in clinical trial
- Kickstarter campaign launched for solution to broken cables
- Briggs partners with //SOS/ Corporation
- Sentenced to a nursing home
- Kindred ranked on InformationWeek Elite 100
- Rational recognizers partners
- Liason partners with AOD
- MidCap Financial closes deal with StoneGate Senior Living
- Berkadia arranges for $146 million in seniors housing deal with Brookdale
- Cambridge Realty Capital Companies arranges $12.6 million loan for assisted living facility
- This American Life ... and death: Superb shows about hospice
- Nursing home yoga therapy could reduce urinary incontinence in women, researchers suggest
- Pharmacy owner pleads guilty to paying nursing homes for unused meds in $2 million scheme
- Strong professional relationships could reduce unnecessary hospitalizations from nursing homes, study suggests
- Reducing the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning
- Is a therapy pool worth it?
- Plan of correction can be anything but, as this provider learns the hard way
- Listening to religious music can improve mental health in older adults
- Aggressive lobbying keeps seniors on Lucentis, prevents Medicare savings, USA TODAY article states
- Legislation would protect nursing home investors
- Seidman begins at Avalere
- Reducing overtime expenses
- Transforming communities with the household model of care
- Eden international conference lands in Music City
- Some nursing home operators may soon discover it's not so easy to hide
- Frozen fecal transplants cure C. diff, could be a game-changer, researchers say
- Employers face monthly fees of $260 per worker if they don't offer Affordable Care Act-compliant insurance plans, analysts say
- Dramatic drop in hospital inpatient readmissions cannot be explained by a shift to observation stays, researchers find
- Caldwell joins MediTract
- Daughtery named LaSalle Group director of finance
- Hunter appointed executive director
- Using the Internet to reduce depression
- Long-term care nurses often 'scramble' to get family members' blessing for palliative care, research shows
- $2 million HIPAA settlement highlights mobile device risks facing healthcare providers
- Double homicide at Houston nursing home; victims' roommate arrested
- The human factor makes the hero
- The value of attending national Open Door Forum calls
- A jolt to long-term care best practices, amid the Ivy
- Jonathan Blum, who oversaw long-term care reforms, resigns as head of Medicare
- Cipro and related antibiotics increase MRSA risk in long-term care facilities, study shows
- Skilled nursing facilities with poor quality ratings do not readmit more patients to hospitals, researchers find
- Palliative possibilities: Therein lies the rub
- Miller consults with Five Star
- Nurse technology contest seeks applications
- Accessory for swimming approved for cochlear implants
- Non-Invasive Open Ventilation System approved
- New report for patient safety
- American HealthTech passes ICD-10 claim test
- Kaba Access and Data Systems Americas introduces new series of keys
- COMS partners with Remedy
- Nice-Pak Products and PDI celebrate Earth Week with solar system
- Southview among communities with loans
- MedProperties and Equity team up to build Florida SNF
- Joerns, RecoverCare to merge
- Kisco Senior Living breaks ground in NC
- States can designate more nursing homes in urgent need of quality improvement, government says
- Charges that Omnicare disguised nursing home kickbacks as charitable contributions can proceed, federal judge rules
- Special surveys on dementia care, Minimum Data Set coding will launch by mid-year, CMS announces
- Is 'person-centered care coordinator' the next must-have staff member?
- Performance data helps providers in Georgia
- Management of Diabetes in the Long-Term Care Setting
- Final rate notice signals continued pressure on Medicare Advantage payments
- Cost of doing business about to rise for many providers
- Aggression strongly signals pain only when dementia reaches advanced stages, researchers find
- Former CNA gets 16-year prison sentence for stealing nursing home residents' identities
- Nursing home administrators do not believe that pay-for-performance improves care quality or facility profitability, survey shows
- Pest management starts on the outside
- Top 10 ways to avoid litigation
- Diabetes summit explores clinical, therapeutic targets
- When it comes to fixing long-term care, it's time to start thinking outside the tank
- 'Minor' issues at the nursing home can cause disastrous care transitions, expert warns
- RACs were 'most improved' healthcare auditors for getting back money in 2013, government report states
- Long-term care facilities approach 80% worker flu vaccination rate after handing power to regional pharmacy, AHQR reports
- Battling depression: Advice on how to make seniors feel valued by others
- Maytag selects DeJong
- Beal promoted to Kindred Nursing Center Division President
- The potential break-up between hospitals and long-term care
- Shortchanging the Older Americans Act has led to unnecessary nursing home placements, senators say
- PharMerica to pay $200,000 settlement over federal charges of unsafe dispensing practices
- Septicemia, urinary tract infections rank high on latest list of hospital readmissions causes
- Asking about end-of-life care when patients can still answer
- Bundled payment: A potentially lost opportunity for providers
- A time for nursing homes to embrace the cheddar while they can
- MS patients less tense and pessimistic in nursing homes than at home, study finds
- Government would pay seniors to create advanced directives under Senate bill
- Hospitals slap the government with lawsuits over 'two-midnight' policy to reduce observation stays
- Aviv REIT offers public stock
- NCAL unveils 2014 Assisted Living Week logo
- New healthcare educational catalog available
- New lighting controls offer options for design
- Grace Healthcare, Senior Lifestyle Corporation choose Redilearning
- Remedi SeniorCare receives Ohio approval for interface with Optimus
- Apollo Safety forms special healthcare division
- Briggs Healthcare announces partnership with myCNAjobs
- ViaQuest acquires Indiana operations of TriStar Home Health and Hospice
- LaSalle Group opens Oklahoma Autumn Leaves memory care community
- Berkadia secures nearly $44 million in SNF financing
- Nurses Day — a picture of perseverance
- Blueprint Healthcare adds associate
- What Chipotle can teach long-term care
- Visitor shot and killed on the grounds of an assisted living community in Kansas
- Proposed Life Safety Code updates encourage more homelike environments
- Long-term care providers achieved 15% antipsychotic reduction goal, CMS announces
- Integrating mind, body and spirit
- Additional nursing home inspection rules are not the answer
- CMS: Hospice quality reporting to begin July 1, will require admission and discharge records
- Skilled nursing edges toward 90% occupancy, absorption rate makes first gain in nearly a decade, NIC data shows
- Bill would create 'advanced aide' positions in nursing homes to improve transitions, dementia care
- Pain: An LTC rehab perspective
- Is technology radical, or just common sense?
- Premature obituaries about nursing homes unfair, off the mark
- National political, military and space heroes highlight ALFA conference agenda; registration underway
- Nursing homes send too many dementia residents to the hospital in their last year of life, study finds
- House members request $200 million to increase long-term care, geriatric medicine workforce
- Hospitals worried about readmissions should focus on nearby nursing homes' pressure ulcer stats, study suggests
- Sebelius resigns as administration touts ACA enrollment numbers
- Doerhoff promoted at Life Care Centers
- Bare promoted at Premier Senior Living
- Long-term (care) anxiety at bargain prices
- Were the nursing home strippers really a bad idea?
- US dementia strategy overlooks transitions into and out of nursing homes, analysts find
- CMS releases Medicare physician payment information, includes some nursing home affiliations
- Higher acuity residents drove skilled nursing home bed prices to record levels in 2013, report finds
- Technology and resident safety focus in May 7 webinar
- Focusing on technology for resident independence and confidence
- Groups to find out if Obamacare is their golden ticket
- Close to 1,000 nursing home investigation complaints in LA open for more than 2 years, audit finds
- Strippers hired at NY nursing home, violated resident's rights, lawsuit alleges
- OIG changes its mind on referral services discounts
- High stakes and rewards at ACHCA Convocation
- Assisted Living Concepts becomes Enlivant
- New blood glucose meter arrives
- Enduratex announces Orient
- Telairity creates new encoder products
- Ansell kicks off HERO awards for nurses
- Caremerge announces partnership with Care Technology Systems
- Team SCA adds new member
- PSA Insurance & Financial Services acquires risk management firm
- SureCare RX opens new facility in Washington
- Episcopal Communities & Services announces financing for MonteCedro
- MidCap Financial closes three deals
- Ryan moves to SCA North America
- Ready, set ... Just kidding! (ICD-10 adventures continue)
- Community connections and quarters: How one nursing home responded to a 45-day water crisis
- Connecticut, New York top sites with most expensive private nursing home room
- OIG spends $75M on Medicaid oversight, recommends cost-saving measures
- Skilled nursing facilities could lose big money if they don't hire a managed care coordinator, expert says
- Diagnosing cash flow problems in a SNF
- Paying for long-term care not unlike The Babysitter problem
- Theft from Michigan long-term care ombudsman jeopardizes HIPAA-protected information of 2,500 people
- Senators press for SNF survey changes in light of adverse events report
- Nurses who don't pay taxes or student loans could trigger penalties for SNFs, expert says
- Why LTC organizations should conduct end-of-life planning conversations
- Preparing for managed care
- What hostile work environment? The doctor only groped her once
- Long-term care administrators 'on a roll' at annual conference
- Same-sex married couples now have expanded Medicare enrollment options, HHS announces
- HCR ManorCare worker negligence led to hepatitis C outbreak, residents charge in federal lawsuit
- Tornado shelters should be installed in nursing homes, government agency recommends in report on Joplin disaster
- The Eldercare Method: Using psychology for positive outcomes
- End-of-life decisions may cause confusion, anger
- Advance directives reach record levels, but this does not lead to more hospice use, researchers find
- CA nursing home withheld overtime pay, forced workers to alter time cards, federal lawsuit charges
- Median cost of a private nursing home room now exceeds $87,000 a year, Genworth survey finds
- Beacon Hill chooses executive chef
- Pennrose promotes Resciniti
- Tape 101: Making it stick
- Spacely Sprockets and the future of medical care
- 'The Best Days' — a best read
- Vibration could heal chronic diabetic wounds, researchers find
- Emergency prep rule for long-term care should specify amount of supplies to have on hand, advocacy group says
- Ryan budget proposal would hurt nursing home residents on Medicaid, critics charge
- Self-esteem, the universe, and checks and balances for all of us
- Smartphones, tablets may help smokers quit
- New door handle takes tech world by storm
- Drive Medical introduces bariatric rollator
- WeMontage provides removable wallpaper
- Lintech, HCS Software among companies that pass ICD-10 transition testing
- SCA recognized as ethical company
- Sherpa debuts as senior housing lead tracking tool
- Oak Grove Capital named top seniors housing lender
- Augustana Care announces new partnership
- Berkadia originates $86M package for 15 senior housing properties
- Lancaster Pollard involved in $30.5 financing deal with NCR; works with Eskaton
- Ziegler closes $73.5M in financing for Texas community
- 2014 Professional Development Guide
- Mace moves to NIC
- Nursing home workers could better communicate with family over 'gray area' decisions during late-stage dementia, study suggests
- Medicare manual revision addresses civil monetary penalty policies, survey timeframes
- Obama budget cuts provider payments
- CMS requests survey buildup
- Audits paused, providers glad
- Feds looking to QAPI, not penalties, for help
- Staffing, quality link found shaky
- New test for Alzheimer's
- Flu shot cuts stroke risk 24%
- White House spending plan less than industry hoped for
- 22% of beneficiaries return to hospital
- 60 seconds with ... Leonard Gelman, M.D., CMD
- Self-reporting may forewarn memory problems in future
- Website debuts for HIV-positive seniors
- Ask the care expert ... about INRs
- Foot ulcer healing rate jumps 50% in first-of-its-kind trial
- Study: Diabetes often precedes wounds
- Ask the treatment expert ... about timing negative pressure wound therapy
- AMDA to allow NPs, physician assistants as full members
- Physical demands on CNAs differ by shift
- Ask the nursing expert ... about ICD-10's impact on nurses
- Feds recover $10 million in incorrect Medicaid payouts
- MDS insight found lacking
- Ask the payment expert ... about Medicare technical requirements
- Brookdale, Emeritus merger upends status quo, CEO says
- Ensign split hurts earnings
- BusinessBriefs
- ICD-10: LTC must get ready
- I couldn't live without ... PointClickCare Secure Conversations
- ITUpdate
- State News
- Supreme Court to hear case sparked by Omnicare deals
- Extrapolation for overpays OK, court says
- Ask the legal expert ... about screening for sex offenders
- How to do it ... Resident security
- Trouble with success
- Some good news (from MedPAC !): Quality rising
- A miracle of reflection
- Big data headaches
- Inspiring motivation
- Day in the Life: Sniffing out wandering residents
- Profile: Mastering by example
- 2014 April Buyer's Guide: Laundry/Housekeeping
- Senate passes 'doc fix' bill that links skilled nursing facility payments to hospital readmissions, delays ICD-10
- Nursing homes demonstrate health information exchange, Minnesota style