Bill targeting long-term care facilities would add new emergency requirements
By
Joe Bush
Oct 14, 2022
Long-term care facilities would need to have a crisis plan to manage an outbreak of COVID-19 or other public health emergencies, have a stockpile of personal protective equipment, keep families of LTC...
WHO: Antibody treatment most beneficial for seniors, the unvaccinated, and immunocompromised
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 27, 2021
The World Health Organization’s new guidance for using the REGEN-COV monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19 covers a narrower group of patients than those included in the FDA’s updated...
New method allows healthcare workers to clean, reuse PPE up to five times
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 14, 2020
Long-term care providers in short supply of personal protective equipment can use a new two-step disinfection method that allows them to clean and reuse PPE up to five times.
$400K bonuses, grocery assistance among workforce management strategies
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 08, 2020
Long-term care providers have implemented various strategies — like hefty bonuses and helping with groceries — in order to maintain a steady workforce during the coronavirus pandemic.
AMDA lends new expertise to MyDirectives platform
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 16, 2019
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, AMDA, is partnering with ADVault, creator of digital advance care planning tools, to add clinical content to the MyDirectives® digital platform....
Large numbers of Americans with chronic kidney disease have uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes. A national response is needed, researchers say, and a White House initiative may be a start.
Court to hear wrongful death case earlier forced into arbitration
By
Feb 23, 2016
The son of a woman strangled to death by her roommate at a Massachusetts nursing home will have his case against the facility heard by a state court next month.
Ask the Care Expert … about handwashing
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Aug 05, 2015
Believe it or not, we are having a hard time getting our staff to comply with handwashing. Do you have any suggestions to help us let staff know it is urgent that everyone washes their hands?
Lancaster Pollard refinances properties in 5 states
Jul 09, 2014
Lancaster Pollard recently took on four separate transactions involving the refinancing of properties in Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas.
Kindred estimates revenue reduction from proposed Medicare Part B therapy rate cuts
Jul 08, 2010
Proposed changes to the Medicare Part B therapy reimbursement rate would reduce Kindred Healthcare Inc.’s annual Medicare revenues related to Part B therapy services by $11 million, the skilled nursing...