Despite nursing shortage, schools deny more applicants, report says
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Haymarket Media
Jul 11, 2007
It’s a troubling situation: Despite a growing nursing shortage, nursing schools continue to turn away more potential nurses.
Preparing for the upcoming BPCI model: Is your facility primed for success?
By
Cheri Bankston
Aug 16, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ testing of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative has been largely successful.
How to do it: implementing IT solutions
Mar 01, 2009
New information technology products are vital, but they are seldom inexpensive. That makes it critical for providers, who are typically saddled with tight budgets, to learn how to implement new IT products...
Ventilator disconnection that led to resident death prompted increase in staffing, report notes
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Marty Stempniak
Jan 07, 2019
A ventilator leak at a Minnesota nursing home led to a resident’s death last year, causing the facility to become more aggressive in monitoring, a new report finds.
CMS resumes two-midnight rule audits
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Sep 14, 2016
Quality Improvement Organizations have resumed audits of short-stay hospital admissions under the two-midnight rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday.
Hospital observation stays increased more than 100%, AARP study finds
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 15, 2013
The frequency of hospital observation stays skyrocketed and long stays became much more common between 2001 and 2009, according to a new report from the AARP Public Policy Institute.
Increasing RN staffing in nursing homes could reduce antipsychotic use: Study
By
Marty Stempniak
Sep 14, 2018
Addressing the nursing home industry’s nursing shortage might have a domino effect in dropping antipsychotic use.
How to drive employees
By
Anthony Cirillo
Sep 01, 2012
According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, when economic times are good, deaths in the United States increase. Yet losing a job when the economy sours can cause one’s health...
Many long-term acute care hospitals deliver poor quality of care, newspaper reports
Feb 16, 2010
Long-term acute care hospitals have expanded rapidly in the last 25 years, but statistics show many of them provide substandard care, according to a recent article in The New York Times.
Limit on immigrant visas would hurt nursing homes, LeadingAge says
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 24, 2018
Skilled nursing providers and hospitals are teaming up to oppose a legislative change they say would only exacerbate the healthcare industry’s staffing issues.