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AHCA elects members of defector group to Board of Governors
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Haymarket Media
Nov 16, 2005
The American Health Care Association has elected three leaders from a rival organization, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, to its newly created 15-member Board of Governors.
PA healthcare association, foundation partner to recognize providers
May 02, 2018
The group representing Pennsylvania long-term care providers is teaming up with a private charity as a way to help recognize its members’ caregivers for exceptional patient care.
Hendrix tapped as new nurse leader in the Bronx
Apr 17, 2018
One of the largest post-acute providers in the northeast has named a new top nurse executive.
AHCA/NCAL joins Aging2.0
Apr 07, 2015
The American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living has joined the Aging2.0 Alliance.
Nurse shoots nursing home resident, herself in apparent murder-suicide
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 06, 2013
Authorities were searching for a motive Tuesday after a licensed practical nurse at a long-term care facility in Pennsylvania apparently shot and killed a resident and then turned the gun on herself.
Nursing home denies hair styling contributed to resident’s death
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Feb 10, 2017
A New Hampshire skilled nursing facility refutes claims that a resident died due to complications from a perm at the facility’s salon, according to new legal documents.
Nursing home robber trades clown mask for prison uniform
By
McKnight's Staff
Jan 14, 2013
A woman who wore a clown mask while robbing a West Virginia nursing home last May faces 10 years in federal prison.
Long-term care tech summit produces calls for better, silo-busting assessment tools
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 24, 2014
More progress is needed toward standardizing beneficiary assessments across care settings, an analyst with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told a gathering of long-term care health information...
Manor Care approves sale to private equity firm
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Haymarket Media
Jul 03, 2007
Following the lead of other major long-term care chains, the board of Manor Care Inc., the largest nursing home chain in the United States, has agreed to sell the company to a private equity firm.