Katie Smith Sloan is the new LeadingAge president and CEO
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 16, 2015
LeadingAge has promoted its chief operating officer, Katie Smith Sloan, to its top post: president and CEO.
Patient SNF choice still reigns in bundled payment model
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Oct 16, 2015
Despite the heavy emphasis on partnerships between skilled nursing facilities and hospitals participating in a bundled payment program for hip and knee replacements, patient choice should ultimately prevail,...
State to pay $400,000 after death of veterans home resident
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Oct 15, 2015
Nevada will pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a veterans home resident died after being left outside, according to local reports.
Providers fire back on therapy billing
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Oct 09, 2015
The current payment system for nursing home therapy is “flawed,” wrote American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living President and CEO Mark Parkinson in a letter to the...
AHCA pushes toward payment reform
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Oct 06, 2015
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living will soon face their “most formidable challenge of all,” in delivering a proposal for payment reform to Congress,...
Reader Poll: What hidden talent is the most valuable in your department?
Oct 05, 2015
McKnight’s readers sound off on what”hidden talent they value most.
Technology bytes
By
Amy Novotney
Oct 05, 2015
Working together to streamline electronic prescribing is a ‘work in progress’ that continues to challenge operators, prescribers and pharmacists to get it right
A personal choice
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 05, 2015
Sex, consent and nursing home liability in the age of Alzheimer’s can put providers in unfamiliar, uncomfortable and untenable situations — if they aren’t prepared
Admin pay averages $100K; DONs $86,690
By
Liza Berger
Oct 05, 2015
The long-term care sector continues to show signs of steady growth, as modest rises in management salaries this year illustrate.
Say ‘geeze!’ — more room cameras are on their way
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 05, 2015
If you didn’t work in long-term care and I asked you to specify what Illinois, Washington, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico have in common, we could be waiting for your answer for a very long time.