A good attitude can add years
Living longer may be correlated to optimism, stubbornness and bonds with family, religion and land, according to a new study.
Living longer may be correlated to optimism, stubbornness and bonds with family, religion and land, according to a new study.
Our facility is trying to go alarm-free, but some staff are reluctant to stop using alarms. Any suggestions?
Two huge hospital operators with a significant stake in long-term care could combine to create the largest U.S. hospital owner.
At the end of their lives, AfricanAmericans are more likely to have been admitted to a hospital, land in the ER and discontinue hospice care.
While long-term care providers juggle staffing during cold and flu season, research indicates there may be a factor in their control: How they treat staff.
Kindred Healthcare has not only slid off the skilled nursing radar, it’s also been sold — to insurer Humana Inc. and two private equity partners.
A growing number of hospitals have found a novel way to reduce readmission rates: insist that patients are sicker than they really are.
With increased pressure on nursing homes to become smoke-free environments or create safe spaces for residents to smoke, residents and employees may both feel greater pressured to quit.
For most of his adult life, my dad was an operating engineer for Sears Roebuck & Company.
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission members are on board with a plan to transition to a new Medicare payment system over a two-year span. The new post-acute payment system would begin in 2019 and merge current payment rates with the advisory panel’s own recommended unified post-acute payment system. Easing into the new system would allow providers…