Glory and pride await LTC teams: McKnight’s Tech Awards next deadline is Monday
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James M. Berklan
Jun 28, 2024
Long-term care providers have until Monday’s standard deadline to submit their entries for the 2024 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
BREAKING: Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling could defang CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 28, 2024
The Supreme Court this morning threw out a long-standing doctrine that has given regulatory agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, broad discretion to set rules for the entities...
Meet Danuta Jurgowska, 2024 Spirit Award winner
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
Danuta Jurgowsky, registered nurse at Preakness Healthcare Center in Wayne, NJ, is a Spirit Award winner in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Meet Carol Gordon, 2024 Spirit Award winner
By
Adam Healy
Jun 28, 2024
Carol Gordon, resident care associate at The Village at Willow Crossings in Waltham, MA, is a Spirit Award winner in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Building a coveted ‘destination workplace’ requires diverse investments, active listening to staff:...
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior care operators need to rely on a broad range of solutions, a panel of experts said
Family can’t sue nursing home after resident’s undiagnosed COVID led to husband’s death
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 27, 2024
The family of a former nursing home patient cannot sue the facility or a doctor there for discharging her while a COVID-19 test was pending, even though she soon passed the virus onto her husband, who...
Cigna fights nursing homes’ pending sale, citing potential for broken agreements
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Cigna has filed a legal motion objecting to the sale of a group of nursing homes as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The major insurer claims the sale would give the providers “carte blanche”...
Also in the News for Friday, June 28, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 27, 2024
CBO estimates killing nursing home staffing rule would save more than $22 billion over a decade … Unions, patient advocates call staffing mandate “viable standard under current labor market conditions”...
All adults over 75 should get RSV vaccine before fall, CDC recommends
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 27, 2024
Older adults age 75 and up should receive the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine before the fall. Those aged 60 to 74 years, however, should only get the shot if they’re at risk for severe RSV...
Program boosts positive emotions in healthcare workers
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 27, 2024
Systemic and organizational changes are vital to help healthcare workers manage stress and burnout, but workers also are looking for programs to help them develop individual resilience. An online, self-guided...