After 17 successful years, provider expands CNA training program to competing nursing homes
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Josh Henreckson
Jan 03, 2024
As the need to attract new staff into the flagging long-term care workforce intensifies, one provider’s successful career program is expanding its scope to help in-state competitors.
Moving nursing home staff in as residents has life-changing potential: experts
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 31, 2024
Staff who take up residence in a nursing home for even just a few days are better equipped to transform care delivery and how the actual residents experience it, two experts who have tried the technique...
CMS adds enhanced barrier precautions to infection control guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, the...
15 governors tell Biden ‘unrealistic’ staffing rule would unravel state efforts
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
A group of 15 Republican governors this week urged President Joe Biden to reconsider the federal staffing mandate his administration has proposed for the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes.
‘Sky is the limit’ for health information networks’ SNF insights
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
An expanding health information exchange connecting 71 hospitals and nearly 600 post-acute providers in New Jersey is exceeding expectations and providing staffing insights not necessarily envisioned when...
First subtraction, now additions: Diversicare CEO Steve Nee on rebuilding the brand
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 04, 2023
Two years after becoming a private company, Tennessee-based Diversicare is a leaner organization, and one ready to take on new opportunities, CEO Steve Nee says.
Winners announced in 13th Annual McKnight’s Tech Awards
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James M. Berklan
Sep 21, 2023
RiverSpring Living from the Bronx, NY, was a big winner Wednesday when medalists were announced in the 2023 McKnight’s Tech Awards competition.
Foreign-born nurses bring more ‘human capital,’ compassion to work: study
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Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 02, 2023
Foreign-born nurses provide more “human capital” to long-term care settings than nurses born in the US, according to new research that aimed to better quantify the value of immigrants working in healthcare.
Top US health official takes more heat over nursing home staffing standards
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
For the second time in a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over federal regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on all US nursing...
16 Veteran VIP honorees named in 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction program
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Lois A. Bowers
Feb 14, 2024
Sixteen veteran long-term care leaders were announced Wednesday as winners in the Veteran VIPs class of the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction program.