Study: Healthcare workers not making healthy choices
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Dec 04, 2015
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers don’t always practice what they preach when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, a new study suggests.
Breaking away in style
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Dec 04, 2015
About once a week, Chris Kramer goes for a bike ride along the Fox River in Oshkosh, WI. It’s a scenic ride, but the best thing of all is Kramer never breaks a sweat.
Recent decreases in hospital readmissions may be the result of more return visits being defined as observation stays, which leave many Medicare beneficiaries without nursing home coverage, the Wall Street...
SNFs to pay $3 million to settle first of a kind ambulance swapping case
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Dec 02, 2015
A Texas skilled nursing facility operator will pay $3 million to settle allegations that it received kickbacks from ambulance companies, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Mother, son arrested for running makeshift nursing home
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Nov 30, 2015
A mother and son have been arrested for allegedly operating an unlicensed nursing home out of their central Indiana duplex.
Hungry for a breakthrough
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Nov 24, 2015
Study findings that are applicable to people’s daily lives, like sleep and exercise, are good. Incorporating emotions or heart, as I’ve written about previously, works too. But the best way...
A crowning achievement
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Nov 05, 2015
Sylvia Holland didn’t expect to get too far when she entered the race for Ms. Alabama Nursing Home.
Do it for your herd
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Nov 03, 2015
How do you convince some 50,000 plus college students, faculty and staff to get a flu shot? If you’re the university I attended, you hand out stickers with a catchy slogan and a cartoon cow on them.
Investigation slams arbitration agreements
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Nov 03, 2015
The three-part report, titled Beware the Fine Print, slams arbitration agreements used by car dealerships, credit cards and other industries, but takes particular aim at nursing homes in its second installment.
The curious case of the disappearing CNA
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Oct 27, 2015
In high school, I had a job working in the foodservice industry, which I strongly believe should be a mandatory part of the teenage experience. It might have helped a recently fired nurses’ aide,...