Government report: 1 in 5 Medicare patients suffers an adverse event while receiving post-acute SNF care
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 04, 2014
About 22% of Medicare beneficiaries experienced an adverse event during a post-hospitalization skilled nursing facility stay in fiscal year 2011, and the majority of these events were preventable, according...
Advance directives reach record levels, but this does not lead to more hospice use, researchers find
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Tim Mullaney
Apr 03, 2014
Seniors are completing advance directives in record numbers, but this is not having the expected effect of shifting people from hospitals to hospices in their last days, say researchers from the University...
Nurses who use a smartphone before bed may be more distracted at work, researchers say
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 30, 2014
Nurses who use a smartphone at night for work-related reasons are likely to be less effective on the job the next day, according to recently published research from Michigan State University.
Obesity indeed increases seniors’ risk of death, will be long-standing issue for LTC providers:...
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Tim Mullaney
Aug 19, 2013
Obesity does not decrease seniors’ risk of death, according to a new study that calls into question previous findings. The new study also suggests that long-term care providers will see an increasing...
Quality improves in rural nursing homes with 1 RN per 4 nurses, study finds
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 21, 2015
When it comes to caring for long-stay residents, rural nursing homes do better if they hit a staffing ratio of one full-time registered nurse for every four full-time nursing employees, according to recently...
Pew report: US expectations for elder care are at odds with those in similar nations
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Tim Mullaney
Feb 03, 2014
People in the United States are much more likely to say that seniors should be responsible for their own care, compared with people living in similar economies around the world, according to a recently...
Analysis shows strong prospects for long-term care M&A activity; experts to address business topics at...
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Tim Mullaney
Mar 24, 2014
The long-term care sector is poised to see better merger and acquisition activities than in past years thanks to a confluence of factors, according to a new report from professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Hospice is growing fastest in skilled nursing facilities, new report shows
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Tim Mullaney
Nov 05, 2014
Hospice services increased in nursing homes more than in any other care setting last year, according to the latest annual report from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Better staffing means better care, new nursing home state rankings suggest
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Tim Mullaney
Aug 13, 2013
Staffing is a key factor in determining a nursing home’s quality of care, according to new state-by-state analysis from advocacy group Families for Better Care.
CMS needs to get nursing home staffing information directly from payroll systems, Congressional leaders...
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Tim Mullaney
Aug 27, 2014
Federal regulators should start collecting nursing home staffing information directly from payroll systems as soon as possible, members of the Congressional Seniors Task Force said in a letter to a top...