Biden administration to invest $1.5 billion into healthcare workforce … VA begins publicly reporting overall COVID cases, deaths at veteran nursing homes … $50 million investment in long-term care...
Dehydration plagues nursing home residents with COVID in facility study
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Alicia Lasek
Sep 16, 2021
Clinically significant dehydration is very common among residents with COVID-19 — especially those with dementia or delirium, investigators found. Care providers should be ready with IV fluids and a...
FDA approves pressure wound neurostimulation device
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Amy Novotney
Sep 08, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration has provided 510(k) clearance for Prelivia, a neurostimulation device developed by Rehabtronics that promotes healthy blood circulation and maintains healthy tissue in...
FDA approves ‘first of its kind’ vagus nerve stroke rehab technology
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 30, 2021
The prescription Vivistim System is designed to be used along with rehabilitation exercises in patients recovering from chronic ischemic stroke, the agency announced Friday.
‘Aggressive’ steps needed to keep deadly fungus out of nursing homes: APIC
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 29, 2021
Prevention is the best available strategy for keeping multidrug-resistant Candida auris infections from embedding in nursing homes, the infection control group says. “We may soon run out of options to...
Meet Lynn Hood, Hall of Honor inductee
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Emma Baumgartel
Jul 26, 2021
Lynn Hood, president/CEO, Principle LTC, Kinston, NC is in the 2021 class of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction as a Hall of Honor inductee.
New cases of antifungal-resistant yeast infections in nursing homes alarm CDC
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 26, 2021
For the first time, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has identified U.S. nursing home residents and hospital patients with candida auris yeast infections that resist all first-line antifungal...
Clinical briefs for Friday, July 9
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 09, 2021
LTC providers missing residents’ hearing problems due to masks, other PPE … U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program prevented nearly 280,000 excess deaths … Tooth loss tied to cognitive decline, but timely...
Risk-bearing execs: Operators need to ‘make some noise’ to make some money
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 10, 2021
Skilled nursing providers looking to take on risk for long-term viability need to start getting creative, warn two executives in the business of connecting payers and providers in value-based partnerships.
Surgery favored over conservative care for knee osteoarthritis, Medicare study suggests
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 10, 2021
Seniors with knee osteoarthritis had low rates of dedicated non-surgical care between 2005 and 2010, a new investigation reveals. Study findings suggest that surgery may often be used when conservative...