The federal government’s plan to provide “point-of-care” COVID-19 tests to every single U.S. nursing home is “welcome news for long-term care residents, staff and providers.”
Providers shouldn’t assume that federal authorities will slow down enforcement efforts in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, they should expect authorities to “step up” enforcement efforts — and that includes its new National Nursing Home Initiative, according to one legal expert.
In new but anticipated guidance released Sunday night, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is requiring nursing homes to report any COVID-19 cases directly to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also is mandating that facilities notify residents and families of all COVID cases — or risk enforcement actions.
On Sunday, as part of phase 1 of the administration’s new guidelines for Opening Up America Again, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommended reopening healthcare facilities to provide non-COVID healthcare in areas of the country with low and stable incidence of COVID-19.
The role of a nurse practitioner in these settings is a hybrid of nursing consultant and a fee‐for‐service clinician, say researchers.
The owner of an Arkansas nursing home has agreed to pay $100,000 to former employees whose sexual harassment and wrongful termination allegations were taken up by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
After two years of investigation, a Canadian inquiry has found that an eight-time nursing home murderer would have eluded detection without her self-provoked confession.
One-third of nursing homes cannot meet behavioral health needs … Beta-blockers reduce anger-related Afib episodes … Fast fluid removal in dialysis tied to higher death risk
One New York nursing home is trying an outside-the-box approach to keeping residents safe.
Nursing homes’s new survey routine seems to be going smoothly, about half a year in, but infection prevention problems continue to plague the field.
