Top expert will highlight Expo
Providers have long struggled with offering telehealth due to reimbursement limitations. But the landscape is changing.
Print Issue: February 01, 2018
Providers accused of profit-hiding schemes
Nursing home critics are driving for deeper investigation into how operators “reward” themselves with lucrative self-dealing contracts while allegedly keeping staffing levels low.
Less heads in the beds: NIC
How low can it go? That’s a question many operators are ask- ing in the wake of a report by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care that reveals declining census numbers.
Anxiety is tied to Alzheimer’s
Anxiety symptoms that increase over time have been linked to elevated amyloid beta levels and the early signs of Alzheimer’s, according to Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers.
An ER visit can signal decline
Visiting the emergency room can signal the beginning of serious health challenges for an older person even when he or she is not admitted, researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine contend.
Trump likely to push for regulatory relief
At press time, President Trump’s State of the Union message was shaping up as one that long-term care operators would fondly remember. The White House has embarked on a pro-business agenda that tar- gets taxes and regulatory oversight. A debt plan passed in December will address the former by trim- ming corporate tax rates from…
C. diff linked to food additive
Providers have been put on alert that a specific sugar added to hundreds of foods could fuel outbreaks of Clostridium difficile. Trehalose is a naturally occurring sugar used an additive for taste and shelf-stability, scientists report in the journal Nature. Easily and cheaply extracted from corn starch, it helps feed certain strains of C. diff.…
Industry push to end therapy cap limits has come up short
Providers and Medicare Part B beneficiaries were hoping for a reprieve at press time from therapy caps that kicked into full effect when Congress failed to repeal them or extend a broad exceptions process by Jan. 1.
Tough flu strains hit hard, plague elderly
Influenza hit most of the United States by early January, government officials said. ‘‘This is the first year we have had the entire continental US be the same color on the graph, meaning there is widespread activity in all of the continental US at this point,” said Dan Jernigan, director of the influenza division at…
State News for February 2018
INDIANA State seeks to boost nurse faculty numbers A proposed state bill seeks to attract and retain nursing faculty by offering grants of up to $5,000 a year, with a lifetime maximum of $25,000, to eligible nursing faculty. While more than 24 Indiana colleges offer nursing programs, many struggle with faculty shortages, said the Indiana…
