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Ask the Care Expert about … antibiotic stewardship
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Sherrie Dornberger
Apr 04, 2016
As an assistant director of nursing in a skilled care facility, all I am hearing is antibiotic stewardship. I am lost. How do I begin, where do I start?
Providers benefit from ‘simplified’ NPWT
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Apr 04, 2016
Simplified negative pressure wound therapy systems can provide healing results comparable to more complex systems, a new study shows.
Phototherapy works well with traditional ulcer treatments
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Apr 04, 2016
Phototherapy, a type of non-invasive light therapy, may help speed up the healing rate of diabetic ulcers when combined with conventional podiatric interventions, according to new research.
Readmissions may drop with adjustment
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 04, 2016
A technology assessment tool may help non-medical workers identify who is at risk for readmissions, according to a new study.
Administrators gain control with new technology suite
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 04, 2016
A new product to track information technology infrastructure and see what assets are connected to a company network could help long-term care administrators increase patient privacy.
Reaction management
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 04, 2016
So, how should I react to what that back-stabbing little blankety-blank (fake name redacted for HIPAA compliance) said or did to me?
I couldn’t live without … Best Bath Systems
Apr 04, 2016
Before recently joining Homestead Village as its project manager, Rodney Fenstermacher spent a decade remodeling and renovating showers and tubs at roughly 15 Presbyterian Senior Living facilities.
CMS supports collection of sex orientation, gender data
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Amy Novotney
Apr 04, 2016
Researchers believe collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data will improve care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents.
State News for April 2016
Apr 04, 2016
NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Health has come under fire for its perceived soft enforcement of fines against nursing homes.