Medical directors ‘woefully’ underused, unengaged in long-term care settings: researchers
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Danielle Brown
Dec 03, 2019
Physicians are calling on skilled nursing facility leadership to set up formal systems to help increase medical director engagement in post-acute and long-term care settings.
Licenses at risk for nursing homes without emergency generators, official proclaims
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 03, 2019
Long-term care facilities in Florida that have yet to install permanent or temporary generators under new emergency preparedness requirements could lose their licenses, according to the head of the state’s...
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Dec 03, 2019
CMS opens public comment period for Tennessee’s Medicaid block grant proposal … Resident romances: How a New York nursing home’s policy helps guide and encourage them … Tai Chi helps improve quality...
Healthcare assistants back nursing home minimum staffing proposal
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2019
The National Association of Health Care Assistants is supporting a legislative proposal that would implement minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. Nursing home providers have criticized the...
Medicaid initiatives that push long-term home, community care over nursing homes could end this year
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2019
Funding deadlines are nearing for two initiatives that encourage Medicaid beneficiaries to use long-term home and community care, according to two Kaiser Family Foundation reports.
Aerobic exercise, improved diet could slow memory problems in nursing home residents
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Danielle Brown
Dec 01, 2019
Skilled nursing providers may have a new method for improving memory problems in residents. A study found that aerobic exercises and a heart-healthy diet helped improve cognitive function for seniors.
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Dec 01, 2019
Federal government’s Medicare tool shows seniors inaccurate insurance plans, prices … Initiative would create ‘Bill of Rights’ for nursing home residents in Ohio … Report shows profitability...
Presidential candidate’s long-term care proposal calls for increased wages, minimum staffing requirements
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Danielle Brown
Nov 26, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has unveiled a plan that seeks to make long-term care more affordable for seniors, increase wages for direct care workers and...
Healthpeak Properties cleared in lawsuit charging it ignored fraud, misled investors
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Danielle Brown
Nov 26, 2019
A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit that claimed Healthpeak Properties (formerly HCP Inc.) ignored billing fraud and misled investors about the nursing home chain ManorCare.
Nebraska nursing home closures have created ‘economic ripple effect’
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Danielle Brown
Nov 26, 2019
The closure of more than a dozen nursing homes throughout the state of Nebraska this year are causing an “economic ripple effect” on nearby towns, community members warned.