Senior care providers get new cyber security guidance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2018
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has developed new research aimed at helping senior healthcare providers better understand cybersecurity threats and mitigate risks.
Digital health company announces partnership
Dec 20, 2017
Rimidi, a digital health company provides software and clinical analytics for chronic disease management, and Eli Lilly and Company have announced a partnership.
Reports: Humana-Kindred merger on the table
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 19, 2017
Kindred assets could be divided into separate home care and facility lines.
Nursing home to pay $250,000 in resident’s wheelchair death
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 12, 2017
A Pennsylvania jury has found a nursing home at fault for the death of an 85-year-old resident who fell from a wheelchair and broke his neck. The jury decided the provider should pay the deceased’s...
This was no Sunday stroll
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Dec 06, 2017
On most days, housekeeper Darnel Williams catches a bus to work. If she misses the bus, it’s about a 40-minute walk to Park Manor of South Belt, a skilled nursing facility in South Houston, TX.
Fingerprint scanning leads to privacy fight
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 06, 2017
The latest tension between employee privacy and staffing procedures is embodied in an Illinois long-term care employee suing his workplace over twice-a-day required fingerprint scans.
Break ups can be hard
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2017
Making the switch to a new EHR vendor requires research, resources and resolve
McKnight’s Technology Awards highlight innovation, dedication and quality of care
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 06, 2017
Whether it was reducing hospital readmissions or better tracking of incontinence, striking use of technology to improve resident care characterized the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards...
12 Hollywood Hills residents’ deaths ruled homicides
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Nov 28, 2017
Twelve of the 14 residents’ deaths at a Hollywood, FL, nursing home following Hurricane Irma have been ruled homicides, authorities revealed last week.
SunTrust Bank announces $38.2 million in funding
Nov 22, 2017
Westminster Canterbury-Lynchburg, an assisted living and memory care community in Lynchburg, VA , has secured $38.2 million from SunTrust Bank to build a new six-story center.