CMS waives some requirements for wildfire-impacted SNFs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 18, 2017
Agency offers blanket waiver in Southern California
Nursing home staff open their own homes to nuns fleeing wildfires
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 13, 2017
The nuns who inhabit the Carondelet Center in Brentwood, CA, typically enjoy their lush green lawn and views of the Santa Monica Mountains in the distance. But then severe wildfires threatened the nursing...
Wine country wildfires force evacuation of frail residents at CA’s largest veterans home
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Oct 13, 2017
More than 100 of the frailest residents of California’s largest veterans long-term care facility were evacuated this week amid concerns that rampant wildfires in the area could be detrimental to...
Flirting with disaster
By
Elizabeth Newman
Apr 17, 2012
Having once slept through a 6.7-magnitude earthquake, driven blithely through snowstorms and regularly horrified my Kansas-born husband with my lack of knowledge about tornadoes, I am far from an expert...