A growing number of healthcare providers are adopting mobile technologies, a new study by IT trade organization CompTIA has found. A survey of 375 healthcare providers reveals that 60% of respondents currently...
Lexington Health Network named Innovator of the Year
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 10, 2017
Innovating in telemedicine has been a priority of Lexington Health Network in Lombard, IL, for the past five years. Its dedication has resulted in the Innovator of the Year Gold Award in the McKnight’s...
CNA program retains talent at ‘record level’ for one nursing home
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 08, 2018
In a challenging labor market, one Missouri nursing home is bucking the trends, and retaining young local talent at a “record level.”
Honor your greatest assets
By
Todd Ramio
Aug 01, 2008
Where there’s a nursing home there is drama, and where there is drama, there is a nursing home. If you don’t have drama, count your blessings.
Dunwoody named ‘Dignity’ Gold Award winner
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 13, 2017
It’s hard to find a trickier problem for long-term care providers than incontinence and toilet training management. Efforts by Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square, PA, to address the problem led the...
Top LTC association rails at new payment rule: Concerned about provider micromanagement, extra burdens
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 02, 2018
The dust may still be settling from Tuesday’s release of a new nursing home payment rule, but a leading trade group was already expressing concern Wednesday over what it sees as micromanagement of...
Nursing home does not need Supreme Court intervention to avoid birth control mandate, feds say
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 06, 2014
The federal government defended the Affordable Care Act’s so-called “contraception mandate” Friday in a Supreme Court filing against a Catholic long-term care provider. The ACA requires...
State News for January 2017
Jan 06, 2017
The Obama administration approved a $52.5 billion Medicaid waiver deal for Massachusetts in December.
Providers challenge proposal that adjusts payments, care
By
John Andrews
Jun 05, 2015
Providers in the post-acute care sector seem to be united in wanting BACPAC to take a hike.
State News for June 2016
Jun 06, 2016
NEW YORK — A scathing indictment of the state’s system for licensing, monitoring and disciplining nurses has caught the attention of key officials in Albany following an investigation by a group...