Several Republican lawmakers grilled Michigan’s Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, for her executive order requiring nursing homes at less than 80% of capacity to create dedicated units for COVID-19-affected residents.
Direct care staff members at a New York-based facility were recently celebrated in a creative way for their COVID-19 frontline efforts.
Seniors responding to an April survey reported distress symptoms at rates double those of 2018. Researchers attribute the spike to turmoil caused by the pandemic.
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The Department of Health and Human Services will now be basing its entire distribution of $50 billion in COVID-19 relief funding on providers’ 2018 net patient revenues.
Massachusetts health officials are allowing long-term care facilities to resume visitations with residents under strict guidelines. It’s among the first states to resume visitations in facilities.
Nursing homes that are larger and have more black residents are at an increased chance of having a COVID-19 case, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Netsmart has acquired post-acute healthcare consulting firm Quality In Real Time, the companies announced Tuesday. Together, Netsmart and QIRT will be the largest service provider in the post-acute community, with more than 400 associates. QIRT will become part of the McBee strategic consulting business unit to expand McBee’s OASIS, minimum data set coding and advisory…
Salon and spa provider PS has issued a 17-page guide to help senior living and long-term care operators reopen their in-house beauty services. The salon reopening plan — called ACCORD (an acronym for assess, clean, communicate, organize, reopen and deliver) — is available to all communities, not just PS customers. It can be downloaded, printed…
New guidance outlines ideas for safely opening up indoor and outdoor spaces to residents while keeping infection control protocol in place.
