Edentech releases tool to stay up-to-date on recalls
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 24, 2020
SecureRecalls.com, the newest component in Edentech’s Care, Safe & Secure Suite, is a subscription service providing clients with monitoring and alerting within minutes of a food, drug, device, consumer...
Campaign urges Congress to end ‘national nightmare’ of COVID-19 and protect older adults, caregivers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 18, 2020
The Act for Older Adults campaign calls for a comprehensive relief package, including ‘hero’ pay and paid sick leave for care providers, and a $100 billion emergency fund.
Dollar store leadership
By
Martie Moore
Jun 17, 2020
Allow others to offer up solutions that might be unconventional but worthy of consideration, especially in these trying times.
Long-term care risks extended negative image without more COVID data from operators: exec
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 16, 2020
Seniors housing and care providers across a wider spectrum must start submitting data to increase transparency about the effects of coronavirus infections, says NIC CEO Brian Jurutka.
The problem with playing the blame game
By
John O'Connor
Jun 16, 2020
Mama always said that when all is said and done, more usually gets said than done.
Who cares about Five-Star during a pandemic?
By
Steven Littlehale
Jun 15, 2020
Just as the sun continues to rise, the need to objectively monitor and evaluate care in nursing homes has not ceased, nor has the need for providers to continuously work on quality improvement initiatives.
Use of elastomeric respirators could reduce providers’ need for N95 masks
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 15, 2020
The flexible masks are cost effective, reusable, and could solve the problem of ongoing N95 mask shortages, finds a study set in an academic medical center.
Yoga, baking and the quest for enrichment
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 12, 2020
I wish I could have been there recently when my coworker heard that I had started doing yoga.
Once again, thank you, brave nursing home workers
By
Liza Berger
Jun 10, 2020
It has been said before, but it bears repeating: Nursing home and other frontline healthcare workers are the ones most at the mercy of this awful coronavirus. And now we have the death lists to prove it.
Also in the News for Tuesday, June 9
By
Liza Berger
Jun 09, 2020
Memo suggests Kansas nursing homes must admit patients regardless of COVID-19 status … NCAL requests $5 billion to help assisted living communities respond to COVID-19 … Answers sought about Michigan’s...