Providers take the long view on budget, doc pay formula
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 01, 2014
Long-term care provider associations focused on the big picture and counted blessings in response to legislative action in the last Congressional session of 2013.
Drugs will kill CRE colonies
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 01, 2014
Particular antibiotics are effective in eliminating colonies of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in asymptomatic carriers of the deadly bacteria, according to clinical research.
Budget deal extends Medicare’s 2% cuts
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 09, 2014
Long-term care providers face an additional two years of reduced Medicare reimbursements under a federal budget compromise hammered out in December.
Proposed Medicare rules would tighten CMS oversight of nursing home prescriptions
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 08, 2014
In light of reports that Medicare Part D prescribing practices are endangering seniors — many of them in long-term care facilities — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed...
Greystone closes on senior housing sector’s first-ever Freddie Mac revolving credit facility
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 08, 2014
A California long-term care provider has become the first to obtain financing through a new revolving credit facility for senior housing offered by Freddie Mac.
Fatigued nurses more likely to regret their clinical decisions, study finds
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 08, 2014
Nurses who are fatigued are more likely to regret decisions they make on the job, according to a recent study.
CMS: Nursing home Medicare cuts helped keep healthcare spending at historic low levels
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 07, 2014
Dramatic Medicare cuts to skilled nursing facilities played a significant part in keeping healthcare spending low in 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday.
New study supports ‘prompted voiding’ for managing incontinence in nursing homes
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 07, 2014
“Prompted voiding” is an effective therapy for managing urinary incontinence in nursing home residents, a recent study out of Hong Kong has affirmed.
Former nursing home aide writes powerful poems
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 07, 2014
Janice N. Harrington worked as a nursing home aide in college, and she drew on that experience to write “The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home.” This book-length collection of...
Nursing home does not need Supreme Court intervention to avoid birth control mandate, feds say
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 06, 2014
The federal government defended the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “contraception mandate” Friday in a Supreme Court filing against a Catholic long-term care provider. The ACA requires...