Funding available for nursing home employee background check systems
Jun 11, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Thursday began accepting grant applications from states to establish systems for background checks for potential long-term care employees.
Study: End-of-life care planning improves quality of life of terminally ill patients
Aug 20, 2009
Amid the brouhaha over advance care planning, a new study finds that such counseling actually makes dying cancer patients feel better.
Rapid (Rx) transit
By
Julie Williamson
Feb 02, 2013
Time is a valuable and limited resource in long-term care. Caregivers often scramble to meet the varying needs of their residents and struggle to balance those duties against equally time-consuming regulatory...
Medical device tax could crimp long-term care supplies, hike cost, dampen innovation, expert says
By
McKnight's Staff
Nov 20, 2012
A medical device excise tax scheduled to hit Jan. 1 is causing uncertainty among manufacturers and providers, a healthcare expert said Monday.
Skyrocketing spending on post-acute care shows need for large bundled payment groups, researchers argue
By
McKnight's Staff
May 09, 2013
Post-acute care was the fastest growing major healthcare spending category for government programs between 1994-2009, according to recently released research. The results support large-scale bundled payments...
Governors divided on Medicaid expansion, creating uncertain fiscal forecast for long-term care operators
By
McKnight's Staff
Jan 18, 2013
There are likely to be notable gaps in Medicaid coverage through the nation when major parts of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on the first day of 2014, according to a New England Journal of Medicine...