Argentum conference will highlight innovative practices that span industries
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
Featuring a main stage with eight speakers, this year’s Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference will feature leading experts on workforce development, gerontology, resident programming, branding,...
Refusing to grow up at Signature Healthcare
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
More than a dozen Signature Healthcare employees spent two days playing in Louisville last month, looking for new ways to turn some of their rural nursing homes into community centers for the arts.
Also in the News for Wednesday, Feb. 14
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
Video of veteran’s final journey through nursing home draws 6 million views … COPD patients using inhaled meds more prone to fractures … Patients on rheumatoid drugs cut Alzheimer’s...
Providers critical of Trump budget, which would cut Medicare, kill AHRQ, slash IT agency
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has unveiled his spending priorities for 2019, releasing a budget that would eliminate 22 programs and agencies — including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — and...
Advisory panel targets ‘outsized profits’ for pharmacy benefit managers
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2018
A new federal report examining ways to drive down drug pricing drew praise Monday from industry observers for criticizing a “lack of transparency” among the pharmacy benefit managers dominating...
CDC monitoring new superbug with certain hot spots
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2018
A fungal superbug only recently reported in the U.S. has gotten a foothold, according to data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients in frail health, especially those in...
$1.96 billion nursing homes cut will force hard look at regulation, payment, experts say
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
The federal budget deal struck last week will squeeze nursing homes tighter than ever, advocates said as they began strategizing about how to stem the damage.
Residents, nearby college placed on lockdown after shooting outside Georgia nursing home
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
A nursing home employee was killed in the building’s parking lot Friday morning, authorities said.
Hospice accused of treating ineligible patients agrees to $1.2M False Claims settlement
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
A for-profit hospice company and its owner agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid for hospice services.
Federal budget deal could slash $2 billion from skilled nursing facilities
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 09, 2018
In very early morning voting, the House and Senate both passed the massive spending package described here. President Trump was expected to sign it into law before noon Eastern Time and end a brief government...