Ask the Treatment Expert about … repositioning and mobilization
How can repositioning and mobilization be most effective in preventing pressure injuries in this day and age?
Print Issue: May 01, 2017
Readmission risk increased
Heart failure patients who went to a nursing home were 50% more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than patients who returned home instead, according to a study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Reader Poll: How do you handle conflict between staff members?
“We get out the ruler. We’re kidding! We try to get them to talk to each other and listen to each other. You have to meet them where they are. The last thing they want us to do is bring God into it, although some of them experience God through us.”
McKesson entity now Change Healthcare
Parts of McKesson Corporation and Change Healthcare Holdings have merged to create a new healthcare information technology company called Change Healthcare. It includes all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions. It will employ about 15,000 workers.
Dementia drug use questioned
Canadian researchers urged reconsideration of how drugs are administered to nursing home residents with dementia shortly before death.
SNF employment: Does it mean life in slow lane?
With one son in college and another trying to figure out where to attend, the future job market is a topic near and dear to this writer’s heart.
SCA splitting: health, tissue division to be called Essity
SCA, which owns Tork and Tena, has announced they will be split into two separate companies. The Away-From-Home tissue and medical solutions company formerly known under Tena and Tork will be called Essity, while SCA’s forest products company will simply be called SCA.
Submit entries to tech awards
The 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards are now accepting submissions from long-term and senior care providers.
A day at the opera?
We all have guilty pleasures — things we secretly enjoy but don’t have the courage to admit to long-term care colleagues at stand-up.
Unified pay by 2021: MedPAC
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted in April to recommend an accelerated timeline that would see implementation of a site-neutral post-acute care payment system kick off in 2021.
