New option for readmissions analytics
Medline Industries and Real Time Medical Systems announced a partnership in October geared to reducing hospital readmissions.
Print Issue: November 01, 2017
Field for the new HHS chief includes celebs
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma and television personality Mehmet Oz, M.D., are rumored to be on a list of potential candidates to replace former Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D.
ManorCare CEO bows out
HCR ManorCare announced in late September that its long-time president and CEO, Paul Ormond, would step down after more than three decades at the company.
Expanded wound care line includes silver dressings
Dynarex, citing an increased demand from customers, has added new products to its Advanced Wound Care Line, including silver- and honey-based dressings.
Staff talk not a help for this
A program meant to improve communication among nursing home staff didn’t help reduce falls in facilities, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed.
Sabra CEO: biggest providers simply ‘can’t do it anymore’
Instead of building mass by stringing together operators with national reach, skilled nursing operators and owners should instead concentrate on finding smaller, nimble partners.
When drones attack
It’s your job to think about the future, so we definitely need to talk about drones in long-term care. Not the one who delivered that boring 100-slide PowerPoint at your last facility all-staff. I mean the kind that will soon fill the skies of the future like a swarm of ravenous grasshoppers.
Sleep meds linked to falls
Older people who take sleep medications for insomnia may be increasing their risk of falls, according to new research from Penn State investigators.
Happy horses, happy residents
An executive at Centers Health Care approached Gayle Kirschenbaum with an idea: Create a mini-horse therapy program in the company’s long-term care facilities.
Where Are They Now: Rosewood
The residents at Rosewood, a life plan community in Bakersfield, CA, break the stereotype that older adults aren’t interested in technology — and they do it with an “incredible appetite” for learning new tech.
