The gig economy finally catches up with long-term care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 18, 2021
It’s going to take more than just money to entice people into healthcare and get them to stay
Outsmarting workforce shortage, wage inflation and more frame Aug. 31 webinar
Aug 17, 2021
Want to know why so many workers are exiting the healthcare market — or better yet, how to get them to stay
Aug. 26 Product Theater offers peek at nurse aide certification and touchless monitoring tools
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 16, 2021
The next McKnight’s Product Theater offers something for those in skilled nursing and senior living segments, with insights on how to create a pipeline of caregivers and deploy touchless patient...
How to respond to growing threat of multi-drug resistant organisms focus of Aug. 24 webinar
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 12, 2021
Candida auris. Methicillin/oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The growing list of multi-drug resistant organisms is enough to worry any nursing home leader. These...
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases are increasing, but experts say deadly outbreaks aren’t inevitable
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 12, 2021
Eight months and thousands of vaccinations made an “amazing” difference in two COVID-19 outbreaks at Masonicare’s Wallingford, CT, campus.
Health economists urge CMS to mandate COVID-19 staff vaccinations through quick rule-making process
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2021
A trio of prominent health policy experts is calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “tap the levers” of its regulatory powers and use the Rules of Participation to require frontline...
No stopping them: Pandemics and misinformation don’t care about your borders
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2021
If diseases recognized borders, we might never have been in this mess.
If this state’s long-term care workers don’t get vaccinated, it’s their employers who will have...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 10, 2021
Many of Connecticut’s nursing homes are embracing a new, mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy that will penalize them financially if their staff doesn’t receive shots.
Genesis settles allegations it discriminated against patients being treated for opioid disorder
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 10, 2021
The nation’s largest nursing home company has agreed to resolve allegations that 12 of its facilities turned away prospective residents because they were prescribed buprenorphine or methadone to treat...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Aug. 10
Aug 10, 2021
SNF faces appeal over wrongful death suit, resident’s competency to sign arbitration agreement … New variant seen in U.S. killed seven vaccinated residents at European nursing home … Mask misuse...