Profile: Matt Salo, Executive Director, National Association of Medicaid Directors
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 01, 2012
There may be nobody more imbued in the policy of Medicaid than Matt Salo.
Senate bill tackling antipsychotics use
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 01, 2012
A new Senate bill would require long-term care facilities to report monthly on antipsychotic use.
Court: Relative not bound by arbitration
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 01, 2012
The child of a deceased long-term care resident is not bound to an arbitration agreement because she signed it on behalf of her mother — not herself — an Illinois court ruled in September.
Making DNRs a part of SNFs
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 30, 2012
For all the talk about reducing rehospitalizations, there seems to be a big element missing, according to the New York Times: that of talking.
Re-examining what it means to be great
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 23, 2012
It was a good — no, a great — day for Atul Gawande groupies Monday at the LeadingAge annual meeting in Denver.
Sister-to-sister: A long-term care triple-play
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 16, 2012
One can meet a lot of interesting people at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living convention. It’s rare that you find yourself, however, doing a triple take when...
AHCA’s March
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 09, 2012
We live in a world that tends to focus on personality, not substance; on aesthetics, rather than data; and on the bare minimum, rather than diligence. But there’s been a sea change at AHCA that reflects...
Appreciation for a pioneer in elder weight theory
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 02, 2012
There’s something comforting about an expert on aging living to 89. I’m not saying that gerontologist Reubin Andres had all the answers, or that we should see him as the sole test case of proving...
Feds may void invalid forms
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
Overcoding or undercoding incontinence in the MDS 3.0 remains a problem in many facilities, an expert cautions.
Ancillary costs pound seniors
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 01, 2012
Up to a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries are spending more than what their total assets are worth in the last years of their lives due to out-of-pocket healthcare costs, researchers say.