Start-up Ignite Medical gets hospital backing in new deal
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 17, 2019
Upscale rehab provider Ignite Medical Resorts and the University of Kansas Health System have partnered as owners of the revamped Kansas City Transitional Care Center. Now operating as Ignite Medical Resort,...
Feds give storm-related meds advice
By
Amy Novotney
Oct 17, 2019
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) encourages skilled nursing facilities to take the following precautions for storing medications and supplies before a storm or natural disaster: • Keep an up-to-date...
Early PDPM numbers not the whole story, Parkinson notes
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 17, 2019
Capital providers were warned recently about investing or refinancing too quickly after the start of the Patient-Driven Payment Model on Oct. 1. “I’m really urging the investment community that...
New guidance prescribes exercise ‘like medicine’ for cancer patients, survivors
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 17, 2019
Clinical evidence supports prescribing physical activity like medicine for people diagnosed with cancer, says an international team of experts.
Despite days of abuse and worry in Orlando, there is optimism
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 16, 2019
There could be some encouraging news on the nursing home “abuse” icon set to go live Oct. 23.
AMDA lends new expertise to MyDirectives platform
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 16, 2019
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, AMDA, is partnering with ADVault, creator of digital advance care planning tools, to add clinical content to the MyDirectives® digital platform....
AHCA’s Parkinson pushes for compassionate care; signs three-year contract extension
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 14, 2019
The thousands of examples of compassionate care that providers show residents every day is why the country’s largest nursing home association “will never stop fighting for” them in Washington D.C.,...
AHCA/NCAL and NASL conventions kick off Sunday
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 10, 2019
Perhaps the biggest weekend of the long-term care administrative calendar is at hand with the start of the annual conferences for the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living...
Male applicants get $165K in discrimination lawsuit settlement
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 08, 2019
A provider accused of refusing to hire men and retaliating against an applicant will pay $165,000 to settle a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit.
Sorry, CMS, this time you’ve gone too far
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 08, 2019
Life as a regulator can be a thankless job, but sometimes it involves admitting that you’re just outright wrong.