A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-reducing medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets, compared with usual care.
Government backs off another HCR ManorCare case
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 12, 2018
The Department of Justice has declined to intervene in a massive, seven-year-old False Claims Act case against HCR ManorCare, newly unsealed court documents show.
MedPAC wants mechanism to send patients to higher-quality, post-acute care
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 12, 2018
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is struggling with how to help acute-care providers direct patients to better quality post-acute care.
CMS: Schedule up in the air for new RCS-1 therapy classification system
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 09, 2018
A replacement payment system pitched by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid last spring is no closer to being finalized or implemented, officials said during an Open Door Forum conference call Thursday.
New ‘Playbook’ provides opioid prescribing and pain management support for LTC
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 09, 2018
The National Quality Forum on Thursday released a comprehensive guide to support safe and appropriate opioid prescribing practices and help manage patients’ pain.
Public nursing home head resigns after failing to report death investigation
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 09, 2018
The director for New York’s Cattaraugus County nursing homes has resigned, following his failure to notify county officials of a state death investigation.
Supporting family members bolsters patient care: study
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
Residents who can’t express their wishes about medical care can leave family members emotionally drained.
Researchers find higher readmission link
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
Patients discharged from skilled nursing facilities with functional limitations are at greater risk of being readmitted to a hospital with potentially preventable problems.
Pregnant paws: Fish skins a success at healing wounds
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
A technique being explored as a treatment for human wounds helped save the lives of three bears in California this winter.
High-fluid capacity disposables cut IAD
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
Replacing a non-permeable, reusable pad with a disposable, high-fluid capacity one can reduce the number of incontinence-associated dermatitis cases and lessen their severity, according to research in...