Fired nursing home RN charged with assaulting, threatening to kill resident … Heart attack, angina may speed cognitive decline … Ceiling fan fire displaces 40 nursing home residents
Carp and camaraderie: Fishing partnership reels in new friends
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2019
Three years into a program that pairs local sportsmen with a Pennsylvania nursing home, residents and staff have fallen hook, line and sinker for the carp and the camaraderie. When the fishermen first...
Investors see demand for SNF properties steady or growing this year
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2019
Some 73% of investors think demand for skilled nursing properties will either hold steady or increase over 2018, according to a national survey on healthcare markets released Monday. That’s an improvement...
Medical director’s over-the-phone order for unwarranted insulin leads to $48K fine
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2019
A Buffalo, NY, nursing home has been hit with a $47,827 fine after its medical director ordered insulin for a patient whose recent hospital discharge papers said she should no longer have it.
OIG targets provider for Ultra-High therapy billing … and ends up validating all $4.4 million in claims
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 18, 2019
Known for its intense scrutiny of therapy billing practices, a government watchdog on Monday cleared an Oklahoma City skilled nursing facility that placed 93% of its patients in the Very High or Ultra-High...
Also in the News for Tuesday, June 18
Jun 18, 2019
State acts to revoke license of facility where incapacitated woman gave birth … . Cell phones as assistive technology? New bill would increase access for disabled seniors … Self-funded dementia...
One-third of nursing homes cannot meet behavioral health needs
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
Behavioral health needs are going unmet in as many as one-third of the nation’s nursing homes, while almost half employ staff without adequate behavioral health education.
Mailed arbitration agreement doesn’t cut it in home health case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
A home care assistant who claims she never received an arbitration agreement by mail has won the right to seek back-wages in court.
New McKnight’s ‘Clinical Daily’ e-newsletter puts research to work
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
Clinical Daily can help shape daily care by providing up-to-date reports on new medicines, treatments, caregiving innovations, technology and more.
Also in the News for Monday, June 10
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
Opioids increase risk of pneumonia in Alzheimer’s patients … Newly discovered rapist kept working in skilled nursing for 17 years after his crime … New gene therapy shows promise for Parkinson’s...