Hackers could be next HIPAA threat to long-term care, expert warns
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 21, 2014
Protected health information breaches for long-term care facilities will migrate from accidental human-caused problems to outsiders gunning for valuable intelligence, one compliance expert predicted Tuesday.
Nurse leaders told to develop staff competency plan to meet federal requirements
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 10, 2018
Knowledge should not be confused with competency when assessing skilled nursing staff, a nursing expert warned Tuesday.
Advancing Excellence suspends some activities after funding loss
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 17, 2015
Advancing Excellence in Long-Term Care Collaborative (AELTCC), a group of organizations aiming to raise quality in nursing homes, has suspended its outreach efforts and staff due to a lack of funding.
HealthcareSource ranked No. 1 in report
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 26, 2013
HealthcareSource, which offers healthcare talent management solutions, said Tuesday it was ranked first in overall vendor performance in the KLAS research report, Talent Management 2013: The Journey Has...
New benchmarking system focuses on easy data search
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 23, 2018
Skilled nursing providers, for example, can use OnlyBoth to look at specific hospitals and other referral partners. They also can look at competitor nursing homes and compare across multiple facilities,...
Admin pay hits $111,000-plus
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 04, 2019
Nursing home administrators and other top executives saw larger than average salary increases over the past year, indicating a possible effort by operators to keep hard-to-find talent in-house.
Medicaid cuts would hurt opioid epidemic efforts, experts tell White House
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 20, 2017
Cuts to Medicaid, whether they are in President Trump’s budget or via the GOP healthcare bill, would hurt efforts to curb opioid addiction, according to attendees at the White House’s first...
Technology is helping prevent readmissions, but integration across the care continuum remains a pressing...
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 25, 2014
As data sets increase for post-acute care, so will the need for standardization and the push for skilled nursing facilities to be connected with other health entities, experts said at a health information...
Long-term care tech summit produces calls for better, silo-busting assessment tools
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 24, 2014
More progress is needed toward standardizing beneficiary assessments across care settings, an analyst with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told a gathering of long-term care health information...
Sabra on an upswing
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 05, 2012
Moody’s Investors Service upgraded Sabra Health Care REIT in mid-April after the long-term care landlord posting its second-best performance in the first quarter, with a total return of 38.8%.