McKnight’s Long-Term Care News wins 3 ASBPE awards
Apr 15, 2024
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News has kept a long winning streak alive, earning three regional awards in the 2024 Azbee Awards of Excellence program.
Also in the News for Monday, April 8, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2024
Long-term care industry needs to raise the bar for onboarding: survey … Lawmakers embrace bill prohibiting LTC owners or staff from becoming guardians of residents … Change Healthcare facing at least...
Staffing, Medicaid policy force nursing homes to ‘self-limit’ access
Apr 09, 2024
One in four skilled nursing beds is offline in Pennsylvania, with providers tying reduced access directly to a lack of frontline staff and Medicaid payment shortfalls. But that’s no one-state issue,...
Nursing homes turn away people recovering from opioid addiction, report finds
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island got the attention of Americans with Disabilities Act advocates when they refused to admit people coming out of hospitals after treatment for opioid addiction,...
Survey: Nearly half of healthcare workers witness discrimination against patients
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Foster Stubbs
Feb 20, 2024
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are likely to witness discrimination in their workplaces, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative. This can contribute...
Surveyors haven’t dropped the hammer on new nursing home arbitration rules, but threats persist
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2024
Two years after surveyors began enforcing new arbitration rules, they have not pursued skilled nursing operators with the vigor some expected.
Loneliness tied to higher death rates in cancer survivors
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 30, 2024
Cancer survivors who felt lonelier or experienced more social isolation had a greater risk of dying compared to those who were more connected, a recent study finds.
After receiving COVID-19 shots, many NY healthcare workers doubted boosters, study shows
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 17, 2024
Healthcare workers at a New York health system likely aren’t exactly lining up to get the latest COVID-19 boosters. According to a survey of healthcare workers at HCP between 2021 and 2022, 17% were...
Also in the News for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 13, 2024
Fortune targets for-profit nursing home ownership, questions ties to declining quality … DOJ’s new whistleblower rewards program targets corporate misconduct … VA activates Oracle EHR at first new...
Failure to account for cognitive limitations threatens reliability of complaint process: researchers
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Josh Henreckson
Feb 02, 2024
Regulators haven’t found a way to fully account for the ways Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias affect the nursing home complaint process, likely leaving some deficiencies unaddressed, a new study...