Ask the legal expert … about gun violence in facilities
By
John Durso
Jun 01, 2013
A resident smuggles a gun into our facility and shoots a worker who, she says, has been treating her harshly or disrespectfully. What’s our recourse?
Price: ACA repeal bill a ‘first step’ to put Medicaid program on ‘sustainable path’
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Mar 09, 2017
Legislation introduced this week to replace the Affordable Care Act will make the Medicaid program more sustainable, according to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D.
Nursing homes facing major challenges to Medicaid, Medicare, Yarwood says
Oct 06, 2009
Bruce Yarwood, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, Monday likened the problems facing long-term care to a “tsunami.”
Another state accused of improprieties in granting private Medicaid contracts
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 17, 2018
A Pennsylvania Court has ruled the state’s Department of Human Services violated procurement rules when an official met with top executives of a company bidding for a share of its Medicaid service...
Lawmakers target SNFs’ big payer for fraud, waste cuts
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2018
A pair of Congressional subcommittees focused on oversight have banded together to examine ways to reduce Medicaid fraud and waste.
Republican lawmakers accuse CMS of focusing on recovering, not preventing, improper payments
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Sep 13, 2016
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services relies too much on investigating improper Medicare payments after they’re made instead of preventing them to begin with, Republican lawmakers said Monday.
Electronic hand hygiene monitoring cuts MRSA rates by 42%
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Jul 12, 2016
Use of an electronic hand hygiene monitoring system decreased the rate of healthcare-acquired MRSA infections in one health system by 42%, research shows.
Day in the Life: Sniffing out wandering residents
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 01, 2014
Long-term care providers might want to get themselves an Acki to help locate residents who wander from the premises. No, Acki is not the name of a brand new electronic monitoring system. Acki is a German...
Roommates getting in the groove
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 01, 2013
If you hear jazz while you’re at the Newark Extended Care Facility, it’s probably coming from the room shared by John Griggs and John Lott.
Auditor finds home healthcare changes meant to decrease SNF costs saved far less than predicted
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 10, 2019
Controversial changes to a Missouri program that were aimed at keeping patients out of nursing homes have resulted in tens of millions of dollars less in savings than lawmakers had foreseen.