Authors of the broadest study yet linking staff COVID-19 vaccinations to lower resident death rates are urging policymakers to rethink their “stagnant” approach to booster shots.
60 Seconds with … Kim Powell, PhD, RN
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
You’ve won a $1 million NIH grant to study how text messaging might speed up decisions about transferring nursing home residents. What is your goal?
Researchers: Add wound quality measures
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
Researchers are calling on CMS to adopt new quality measures that encourage more frequent debridement and other advanced care for hard-to-treat wounds.
Wireless smart bandage makes short work of chronic wounds
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
A Stanford University research team has created a smart bandage made of a thin, flexible printed circuit and a wireless power source that provides electrical stimulation to injured tissue.
Ask the wound expert … about wound care’s economic burden
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
Q: What is the burden of wound care on the economy and society at large?
CMS completes minimum staffing study; targeting ‘onerous’ MA authorizations
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
Two proposed rules should help patients improve their Medicare Advantage plan selections while standardizing expectations for skilled nursing and other healthcare providers, federal officials reiterated...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Jan. 25
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
States sue HHS over WHO public health emergency influence … The Nathaniel Witherell gets $900,000 personal bequest, one of the town-owned nursing home’s largest ever … Fire suppression system contains...
Will you be prepared when the shooting stops?
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2023
There was an air of relief to Tuesday afternoon’s coverage of a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, CA, particularly as it emerged that this brutal attack was likely an incident of workplace violence.
OSHA pursuing violence prevention rule for nursing homes, others
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2023
Federal safety regulators on Friday revealed more details about a possible workplace violence prevention rule that would apply to healthcare settings, almost certainly including skilled nursing facilities....
Use of contractors muddles $15 nursing home minimum wage rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2023
Nursing homes in Florida are meeting and often exceeding a new requirement to pay their staff at least $15 an hour, but some critics are raising concerns about lower wages being paid to contract workers.