Clinicians key to boosting coronavirus vaccine confidence, CDC says
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 02, 2020
A new webpage provides 10 “need to know” topics regarding vaccination against COVID-19 that clinicians can relay to patients in their care.
Judge: Deaf resident can sue operator
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 08, 2018
A former nursing home resident who is deaf can pursue a discrimination case against the facility where she lived for more than two years because staff ignored her repeated requests for a sign language...
66 percent of nursing home residents given antibiotics during stays, researchers report
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 09, 2023
Results from a long-term study of Medicare Part D data shed light on antibiotic prescribing prevalence, the most common drug types and rate of therapy days for U.S. nursing home residents.
Symptomless COVID infections found in almost half of US adults, CDC says
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 05, 2022
Approximately 44% of US adults were “possibly asymptomatically infected,” between August 2021 and May 2022, blood serum evidence shows.
Study: Some 56% of people don’t know they are contagious, omicron study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 19, 2022
This lack of awareness about asymptomatic infections likely had a role in rapid transmission during the omicron wave, investigators say.
High blood pressure is well-controlled in VA nursing homes: study
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
May 10, 2022
About 80% of residents with hypertension maintained optimal blood pressure during the study period, investigators report.
Seniors with late-onset depression have poor treatment response
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 15, 2022
About one fifth of the patients aged 65 and older with first-time depression did not respond to antidepressant treatment during a one-year study period.
AHCA praises House committee for considering broad Medicare reforms
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 17, 2013
Prompted by a hearing of the House Ways & Means Committee, the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living has reiterated a call for bipartisan action to reform Medicare without...
Former CNA arrested for trying to plan, film resident sexual assaults
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Jan 21, 2016
A former nursing home certified nursing assistant has been arrested over allegations that he solicited men to sexually assault residents while he filmed them.
Sprinkler mandate fails to soak in
By
John O'Connor
May 25, 2012
Ben Franklin warned us that death and taxes are life’s only certainties. But if you run a long-term care facility, feel free to add regulations to that list. And it looks like a doozy of a looming...