Stealth heart attack symptoms often ignored, delaying care
Mild, slow heart attack symptoms may sneak up on residents with multiple health problems, delaying time to treatment by five hours.
Emergency Preparedness
Feds encourage healthcare facilities to brush up on active shooter training following deadly incident
A federal agency is encouraging nursing homes to take a refresher course on preparing for active shooters after a deadly incident at a Chicago hospital last week.
Senator blasts move to ‘weaken’ nursing home emergency prep measures
The ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on Monday blasted a proposal from the Trump Administration to ease requirements that nursing homes must meet to prepare for emergencies.
Exercising and evaluating CMS emergency preparedness plans
You can’t painstakingly document and evaluate during an exercise or emergency, but detailed and comprehensive event logs can provide a great deal of information for evaluation.
Experts cite LTC’s better disaster preparedness scores but say more needed
How well-prepared is your nursing home in the event that a disaster strikes — be it an active shooter, hurricane, cybersecurity attack or outbreak of Legionnaires disease?
Residents, nearby college placed on lockdown after shooting outside Georgia nursing home
A nursing home employee was killed in the building’s parking lot Friday morning, authorities said.
4 considerations for building your emergency preparedness plan
From Hurricanes Irma and Harvey to the California wildfires, there has been no shortage of extreme weather around the country.
Lessons Learned: What falling out of the sky taught me
Suddenly the plane dropped and items went flying, including people. We heard the strange noise again and realized that this was not normal turbulence.
Emergency prep lessons for surviving ‘ruthless’ audits in Jan. 17 webinar
A special McKnight’s webinar on Jan. 17 will offer secrets directly from a master emergency preparedness planner, trainer and driller with a perfect compliance record.
Bill would require more emergency prep in nursing homes
A new bill seeks to bolster emergency preparedness at the nation’s nursing homes, even as the Trump administration backs away from some non-compliance penalties.
