LeadingAge CAST releases Health Information Exchange selection tool
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 29, 2019
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has launched a Health Information Exchange (HIE) selection tool, a multi-part resource that will help care providers understand, plan for, choose,...
Biden targets nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
President Joe Biden made nursing home history March 1, when he included the sector in his first State of the Union address. Biden pledged a crackdown on private-equity investors and vowed tougher oversight.
Healthcare employers can offer babysitting app free to working parents
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 27, 2020
Employers in the healthcare sector have a new perk to offer frontline employees: membership to a babysitting app. The Swishboom babysitting app is providing 25,000 annual memberships to give away to...
New overtime payment rule closer to reality
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 20, 2017
A new overtime rule could hit employers as soon as next October, the U.S. Department of Labor announced in its fall regulatory agenda.
Researchers: We need better skin-failure terms, concepts
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 04, 2020
Despite increasing acceptance of skin failure, more understanding is needed to address risk factors and advance more rigorous analysis, according to researchers.
Antibiotics may fuel delirium that causes SNF placement
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2016
The delirium that often lands seniors in nursing homes can be triggered by commonly prescribed antibiotics — a culprit doctors might overlook.
Case could change nursing meal breaks
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 06, 2015
A California court case concerning waived breaks could have widespread implications for healthcare workers encouraged to give up meal time during extra-long shifts.
Incontinence skin solution could be as simple as A-C-T
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2018
Incontinence-associated dermatitis remains an important practice concern, and time-strapped clinicians need to do a better job of adopting available treatment guidelines.
Chernof announces retirement from SCAN
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 04, 2020
The founder and CEO of The SCAN Foundation will step down by the end of the year. Bruce A. Chernof, M.D., FACP, made the announcement this month after 12 years of leadership. The foundation has awarded...