McKnight’s Online Forum Wednesday to cover clinical care, global lessons learned and infection...
Jun 23, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for long-term care and senior living communities. McKnight’s will tackle three key issues during its Online Forum: COVID-19 Update IV on...
McKnight’s 40 for 40: David Horazdovsky
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Liza Berger
Jun 22, 2020
A sense of purpose has guided David J. Horazdovsky since he joined the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society in 1978.
Once again, thank you, brave nursing home workers
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Liza Berger
Jun 10, 2020
It has been said before, but it bears repeating: Nursing home and other frontline healthcare workers are the ones most at the mercy of this awful coronavirus. And now we have the death lists to prove it.
Lawmakers want CMS to crack down on facilities seizing residents’ stimulus checks
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Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2020
Two House Democrats are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to issue guidance to prevent long-term care facilities from taking residents’ coronavirus relief payments.
Project details each frontline healthcare worker who has died from COVID-19, count nears 600
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Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2020
New data reveals that nearly 600 frontline healthcare workers appear to have died from COVID-19. That is substantially more than the number (368) provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
HHS now requires more lab data on who’s being tested for coronavirus
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Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2020
Labs that conduct coronavirus testing now need to provide additional information to the Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose is to better monitor disease incidence and ultimately target...
Also in the News for Tuesday, June 9
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Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2020
Memo suggests Kansas nursing homes must admit patients regardless of COVID-19 status … NCAL requests $5 billion to help assisted living communities respond to COVID-19 … Answers sought about Michigan’s...
COVID-19 pushes skilled nursing occupancy down 10%, analysis finds
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Liza Berger
Jun 08, 2020
The nursing home population has fallen by 100,000 residents, or 10%, since the end of 2019, according to a Wall Street Journal news report. The main cause cited was complications related to the COVID-19...
Many poorer performers pursuing COVID-19 patients as states dangle incentives, report says
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Liza Berger
Jun 08, 2020
States are creating a “perverse financial incentive” to push poor-performing nursing homes to take care of COVID-19-positive patients, Politico claims in a report. California, Massachusetts, Michigan...
Nursing home doctors recommend ways to reduce COVID-19 deaths as prospect of ‘second wave’ looms
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Liza Berger
Jun 08, 2020
In response to the estimate that more than one-third of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, the American Medical Directors Association has published recommendations to decrease...