If a Ciena Healthcare Management facility feels especially homelike, it’s possibly because of Kay Peruski.
Design Decisions: Hitting the right notes
By
Dave Surico
Feb 01, 2014
Company’s first big construction project overcomes challenges and plays on Nashville region’s tastes for music, art and local attractions
Nursing home to pay $370,000 to settle charges it asked for family history information in the hiring...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 15, 2014
A nursing home that now is out of business has agreed to a $370,000 settlement in an employment discrimination suit, which included charges that it asked for genetic information as part of the hiring process,...
Extendicare resident’s arbitration agreements should stand, jury concludes
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 14, 2014
Arbitration agreements signed by a resident of an Extendicare facility are valid, a jury in Kentucky determined Friday.
Nursing home residents appreciate caring staff, but workers could do a better job honoring resident wishes,...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 10, 2014
Caring staff members who form close relationships with residents are a strength of long-term care facilities, but workers could more consistently honor residents’ choices and privacy, according to...
Thomas: Additional pressure ulcer research trials a must
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 01, 2014
Nursing homes should adopt evidence-based approaches to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, but significantly more research is needed to support this goal, a professor of geriatric medicine said in...
State News
Jan 01, 2014
NEW JERSEY – Untold amounts of money have been pilfered from nursing home residents’ funds by those entrusted to protect them, and little government oversight exists to prevent it. This is...
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...
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...
Ensuring nursing home quality is a top challenge for HHS in 2014, inspector general says
By
Tim Mullaney
Dec 18, 2013
Promoting quality care in long-term care settings is one of the top management challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services in the next year, according to a report from the agency’s...