The nation’s leading spokesman for the US nursing home sector recently made an interesting observation about what might be called the current plight of many frontline workers in long-term care.
The saddle in the garage
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 07, 2024
For decades after his last ride, it rested on a sawhorse in a darkened corner of my father’s garage — his favorite Western saddle.
Wound care steps into the digital age with confidence
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
Artificial intelligence tools are dramatically cutting the time needed to diagnose, stage and treat complex wounds in the elderly.
SNFs increasingly embrace the value IPs bring to care
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
Regulations requiring more attention on infection prevention and an expanded role for nursing home infection preventionists were fortuitous, coming as they did just ahead of the COVID pandemic.
Inside the historic fight for more drug addiction services in nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
With drug overdoses among seniors surging to historic levels, nursing homes will undoubtedly be drawn further into the world of addiction treatment.
Analysis reveals social media, mental health struggles carry devastating implications for the nursing...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 07, 2024
A two-fold problem is keeping healthcare providers from successfully retaining or attracting new nurses and nurse aides, new data published this week shows.
States getting creative to cut into nursing home survey backlogs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
Amid nationwide concern about nursing home survey backlogs, one state is tapping into its COVID-19 funding to help jumpstart a recovery.
Also in the News for Friday, June 7
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
SNFs face ‘increased and increasingly hostile’ government scrutiny, attorneys say … 300 workers to strike at rural facility after union brings unfair labor charges … Judge grants receivership in...
Study: Afib patients on low blood thinner doses have more bleeding than those on standard doses
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 06, 2024
People with atrial fibrillation (Afib) who took low doses of blood-thinning drugs known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) experienced more bleeding during the first three months of treatment. About...
Nurse managers, remote BP monitoring help stroke survivors cut hypertension, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 06, 2024
Black and Hispanic stroke survivors with uncontrolled hypertension had a more than two-fold reduction in blood pressure (BP) when they tracked it at home and sent measurements to nurse case managers, compared...