Provider to pay nearly $1M to settle meal break, shift violation claims
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 20, 2019
Five Michigan skilled nursing facilities and an affiliated assisted living center have been ordered to pay back wages totaling almost $1 million, following an investigation by the Department of Labor....
Value-based care focus could erode regulatory safeguards, critics argue
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 20, 2019
Several healthcare advocacy organizations — and at least two government agencies — are supporting efforts that make it easier for medical providers to share information about or refer patients to their...
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Jun 20, 2019
People with multiple physical conditions have faster brain decline, higher suicide risk … Death of resident who overdosed on cocaine mistakenly attributed to shooting injury that put him in nursing home...
State ups number of poor, elderly it may drop from Medicaid rolls to 30,000
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
Georgia officials revealed this week that they could soon drop as many as 30,000 poor elderly or disabled people from Medicaid rolls — an increase of 13,000 from estimates made in early June. The state...
VA bans use of some wound care injectables after report questions efficacy
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
The Department of Veterans Affairs has advised its facilities to avoid some injectable amniotic tissue products used in wound care because of questions about purity and effectiveness. The Wall Street Journal,...
The package looked like a bomb. Police say it was meth for a nursing home employee.
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
The wrapping on an package left at New Jersey’s Brakeley Park Center last month was suspicious enough to warrant a call to the state bomb squad. Turns out, the first call should have been to the local...
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Jun 19, 2019
McKnight’s Senior Living Expo offers sessions on behavioral health, mobile technology and winning recruitment strategies beginning at 10:30 ET today… Nutrition program at core of lawsuit alleges nursing...
Cost of gloves, other bulk products could soar with Chinese tariffs, nursing homes fear
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
Another round of tariffs on Chinese goods could leave skilled nursing providers scrambling to afford or replace gloves and other heavily used healthcare supplies. Among the latest proposed items for increased...
Study: Direct care workers least likely to take a sick day when symptomatic
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2019
A large Canadian study has found that doctors and others who work most directly with patients are the least likely to take a sick day or leave early at the onset of symptoms. Up to 95% of healthcare workers...
Efforts build to end lockouts of in-house CNA training
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2019
A campaign to end the nurse-aid training lockout at facilities that have been hit with a significant civil monetary penalties appears to be gaining traction. Advocates for skilled nursing providers cheered...