Once-faltering Consulate wins big under new state formula
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Kimberly Marselas
May 15, 2019
Despite questions about the fairness of a new state funding formula, the Florida Health Care Association says redistribution of Medicaid dollars should help facilities that have struggled with performance...
Confusion over insulin may have led to attack on administrator
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Kimberly Marselas
May 16, 2019
Stopping a resident’s insulin shots may have led to an attack on the administrator of a Buffalo nursing home, according to a relative of the attacker.
Also in the News for Thursday, May 16
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Kimberly Marselas
May 16, 2019
MedEquities shareholders overwhelmingly approve $600M merger with Omega Healthcare Investors … To lower readmission and death risk, hospitals told to keep diabetics until blood sugar rebounds … WHO...
Lawyers for seniors urge guardianship reform
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Kimberly Marselas
May 16, 2019
A group of legal advocates for seniors is calling for major changes to guardianship laws following an investigative report that found extensive flaws in the way one state handles its background checks...
Today’s mobile LTC resident can add layers of complication to bathing safety
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
Given an increasingly ambulatory population, the presence of water and the kind of warm and moist environment that invites bacteria to breed, risk is inherent in skilled nursing bathing areas.
New approach yields no new ulcers after 1,181 bed days
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A strategy combining multiple wound prevention practices with behavior modification techniques helped prevent new pressure ulcers during a single-site study in England.
Skin-like sensors could detect healing
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A new form of electronics that integrates with human skin could allow wound tracking in real time over long periods.
Facility lighting could be key to memory, cardiac health
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
The kind of light often used in medical settings has been tied to inflammation, brain-cell death and a higher mortality risk in cardiac patients.
Gingivalis: Gumming up the mouth, brain
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
The same bacteria that causes gum disease may contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and aspiration pneumonia.
PDPM will reduce clinical requirements but demands more attention to detail
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2019
As complex and daunting as the new Patient-Driven Payment Model seems, one change most providers have welcomed is the reduction in resident assessments for therapy.