Profile: Dedicated to excellence
Of Carol Scott’s many accomplishments, there is one that is a particular highlight: enabling nursing home residents on ventilators in her home state of Missouri to receive treatment.
Print Issue: October 01, 2014
State News for October 2014
ILLINOIS — Gov. Pat Quinn (D) has signed a new law making it easier for people to lodge complaints against nursing homes.
Ask the care expert … about end-of-life wound care
I work on a floor in a skilled care facility where most residents are on hospice or at the end of life. Some have wounds that will never heal. How should we care for these?
…They all screamed for ice cream
Halloween candy might be on most people’s minds as they turn the calendar to October. But it’ll be hard for residents at one Missouri nursing home to top the sweet treat they had in the dog days of summer.
I couldn’t live without … NTT Data software
With one glance, staff at Essex Group Management can identify whether required documentation is in place using NTT Data software, says corporate clinical auditor Cheryl Meli, LPN.
Study gives bathing gloves thumbs-up
Nursing homes could save money and improve resident skin care by using disposable wash gloves rather than giving traditional soap-and-water bed baths, according to recently published research.
A very tangled web
Medication management is as much art as science in a patient’s final days, and that can present multifaceted caregiving challenges for hospice providers
ITUpdate for October 2014
» The personal information of roughly 4.5 million patients was compromised during a series of cyber-attacks against hospital group Community Health Systems, the organization reported Aug. 18. The attacks are believed to have occurred in April and June. Stolen information includes names, addresses and Social Security numbers; no credit card or medical data was lost, officials said. CHS officials said they were working with authorities, and have plans to offer identity theft protection services to victims.
Agencies offer resource for improving LGBT inclusion
Many older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults residing in long-term care facilities do not feel safe being open about their sexual identities, experts say.
Spreading too thin?
Lenders encourage facility operators to think twice before pursing alternative models of care; ‘jack-of-all-trades’ a challenging label to embrace
