McKnight’s honors Lynne Katzmann with its first Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award
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Elizabeth Newman
Mar 21, 2019
Lynne Katzmann, Ph.D., is the inaugural recipient of the McKnight’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award.
Medical director of nursing facility where 11 died sued by families over viral outbreak
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 21, 2019
Six families of children who either died or were sickened in a viral outbreak at one New Jersey nursing facility are suing its medical director and staff. They’re motivated by a recent government investigation,...
Also in the News for Tuesday, March 19
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 19, 2019
Governor pushing legislation that would require ‘humane’ treatment of SNF residents after dumping scandal … Nursing home worker from small-town Michigan wows on American Idol … Medicare fraudster...
Feds target laggards in effort to reduce antipsychotic use
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 15, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is targeting skilled care facilities that are not reducing residents’ antipsychotic use rates as quickly as the government would like.
Kentucky nursing homes use $750K in penalty dollars to stage series of ambitious plays with residents
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 14, 2019
An ambitious year-long effort to elevate nursing home programming, and the lives of Kentucky residents, is coming to fruition in a little over a week.
Bipartisan lawmakers revive observation stay legislation pushed by nursing homes
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 14, 2019
Industry advocates are praising proposed legislation that says patients under “observation status” at a hospital would be eligible to satisfy Medicare’s three-day requirement necessary for skilled...
Wrong choice in nursing home can cause ‘devastating consequences,’ new report says
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 14, 2019
Enhancing transparency and improving the planning process before hospital discharge are among recommendations in a new report on improving post-acute care transitions.
McKnight’s announces robust Rising Stars class
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Elizabeth Newman
Mar 13, 2019
Executive directors, researchers, nurses and vice presidents from across the U.S. and Canada are among the inaugural class of Rising Stars named in the McKnight’s Women of Distinction program.
Nursing homes hope staffing bill opens door for more use of specialists
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 13, 2019
Proposed legislation in Florida would drop the amount of certified nurse aide care that providers must supply, giving them flexibility to deploy other professionals — a change that has two nursing home...
Trump budget proposal takes big whack at Medicaid and Medicare
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Marty Stempniak
Mar 12, 2019
President Trump is proposing drastic cuts to nursing homes’ biggest payer source that could amount to more than $1 trillion over the next decade.