Environmental stimulation decreases apathy levels in dementia residents
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 15, 2015
Nursing homes with strong environmental stimulation are more likely to decrease the apathy levels among their residents with dementia, researchers have found.
Study: LTC nurses spend less than half of time on resident care
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 12, 2015
Care providers spend more than half of their time at work doing tasks that do not involve resident care, indicating long-term care can become more efficient by delegating certain activities to non-regulated...
Cochran case closed by guilty plea
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 11, 2015
Clayton Kelly has pleaded guilty to breaking into the nursing home of the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) and taking unauthorized photos of her in bed.
Healthcare spending growth to decrease in 2016
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 11, 2015
The spending growth for healthcare costs is expected to dip .3% in 2016, due largely to an increase in stock prices, earnings reports and customer base, according to new research.
Flu vaccine adjusted to avert another deadly ‘mismatch’ season
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 09, 2015
Next season’s flu vaccination is being tweaked for broader protection, due to last year’s inconsistent coverage of influenza strains, U.S. health officials announced.
LTC facilities remain at high risk of C. difficile
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 05, 2015
Clostridium difficile is responsible for 14,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, and 75% of them involve nursing home residents, according to an expert presenting Thursday at a McKnight’s webinar.
A federal appeals court has affirmed the conviction and 15-year prison sentence of a home hospice owner found guilty of Medicare fraud.
Few ICD-10 errors reported during testing, CMS says
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 04, 2015
Nearly 90% of claims were accepted efficiently during a second round of ICD-10 end-to-end testing, newly released results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show.
OIG recovers $1.8B from providers
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 04, 2015
The federal government recovered $1.8 billion from healthcare providers and programs in the first six months of fiscal 2015, a federal watchdog has revealed.
States must start screening Medicaid providers, CMS says
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Holly Petrovich
Jun 03, 2015
States have until the end of July to start screening high-risk Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program providers, according to new guidance by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.