ASCP names Worz new executive director and CEO … Connecticut nursing home fined after resident violently beats another with wheelchair foot pedal … GAO: State evaluations of Medicaid expansion...
Also in the News for Friday, Feb. 23
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
New Brookdale CEO talks turnaround after company rejects takeover bid … Michigan healthcare worker with tuberculosis exposed up to 600 people at nursing home, hospitals … Lawyers group says...
Three nurses arrested after unsealed video reveals they ignored resident’s pleas
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
Three nursing home employees accused of ignoring the pleas of a World War II veteran in respiratory distress have been charged in his 2014 death, a Georgia prosecutor announced this week.
Missouri politicians seek annual funding boosts for nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
The Missouri Senate has advanced a proposal to increase nursing home reimbursements.
Nursing home settles with fertilizer suppliers whose products exploded, leveling building
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2018
A Texas nursing home has settled a lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2013 fertilizer explosion that leveled the facility and forced residents to evacuate.
Senate Democrats ask HHS to restore some nursing home regulations
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2018
A group of Democratic senators is asking the Department of Health and Human Services to reverse its stance on rolling back nursing home regulations.
Provider downsizing halted amid state ombudsman concerns over moving frail residents
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2018
A plan to downsize a Michigan nursing home that led to public outcry is on hold, according to the facility’s CEO.
Religious conscience objections 10 times as high since HHS launched new division
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2018
More than 300 healthcare workers have complained to the Health and Human Services Department about employers infringing on their religious or conscience rights, a monthly total that increased nearly tenfold.
Parkinson’s drug shows some promise for treating Alzheimer’s psychosis
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 21, 2018
A drug approved for use in controlling hallucinations and delusions in Parkinson’s patients showed mix results in a trial among Alzheimer’s sufferers.
New Mexico fights conflict-of-interest allegations in Medicaid managed care contracts
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 21, 2018
The state of New Mexico fired back this week against allegations that its selection of new contractors for the state’s Medicaid program was sullied by a major conflict of interest.