Religious conscience objections 10 times as high since HHS launched new division
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2018
More than 300 healthcare workers have complained to the Health and Human Services Department about employers infringing on their religious or conscience rights, a monthly total that increased nearly tenfold.
Senate Democrats ask HHS to restore some nursing home regulations
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2018
A group of Democratic senators is asking the Department of Health and Human Services to reverse its stance on rolling back nursing home regulations.
New vows, for better or worse
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 21, 2018
Seven couples at a Massachusetts nursing home renewed their vows during individual ceremonies last week, part of an annual effort to honor lasting love.
Supreme Court weighing limits on privacy-breach lawsuits
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 20, 2018
In an announcement expected today, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to accept a case that could narrow how “harm” is defined in data-breach cases.
OIG: Medicare needs to do more to prevent fraud and waste related to chiropractic care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 20, 2018
Previous controls have not done enough to reduce fraud and waste in connection to chiropractic care for Medicare patients, according to a review issued by a federal watchdog Friday.
Refusing to grow up at Signature Healthcare
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
More than a dozen Signature Healthcare employees spent two days playing in Louisville last month, looking for new ways to turn some of their rural nursing homes into community centers for the arts.
Skilled nursing providers would lose out under Trump’s revised payment system
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2018
A plan to lump together payments to all post-acute providers would be a budget cut dressed up as reform, providers said after reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services budget proposal.
Providers critical of Trump budget, which would cut Medicare, kill AHRQ, slash IT agency
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has unveiled his spending priorities for 2019, releasing a budget that would eliminate 22 programs and agencies — including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — and...
Residents, nearby college placed on lockdown after shooting outside Georgia nursing home
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
A nursing home employee was killed in the building’s parking lot Friday morning, authorities said.
A national preventive program that promotes evidence-based infection prevention and control practices can curb the risk of infection by streamlining the dissemination of information to nursing home staff.