Fire-safety bill mandating resident notification sails along
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Haymarket Media
Mar 03, 2004
The Tennessee House voted 93-0 in favor of a bill that wound force nursing home operators to tell prospective resident whether their facilities had fire-suppression sprinklers. The bill goes back to the...
The more sports-watching, the lower seniors’ depression risk: study
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 03, 2021
There is a new reason to binge-watch the Olympic Games. Older adults are less likely to be depressed the more they watch sports — either live or on screen, a new study has found.
CMS likely to require more COVID-19 case information from nursing homes
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 13, 2020
Officials are expected to ask eldercare facilities to share more information about confirmed COVID-19 cases with staff, residents and families.
‘Use it or lose it’ appears to have cognitive functioning application
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John O'Connor
Feb 19, 2020
Regularly engaging in diverse activities throughout adulthood can help people retain cognitive functioning abilities in old age, according to a new study.
HealthcareSource wins multiple technology awards
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 07, 2020
Talent management company HealthcareSource received multiple awards in the 2019 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards program. The company received a Gold Award for Best Advance in Assessment...
Institutional procedures trail online education, study finds
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Alyssa Salela
Aug 09, 2017
As online nursing education increases in popularity, researchers are finding institutional procedures may not be keeping up.
CMS releases final rule to increase civil monetary penalties
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Sep 06, 2016
Maximum civil monetary penalties for skilled nursing providers will more than double under a final rule released Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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.
Nursing home operators can now access a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services webpage dedicated to the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement initiative.
Apologies boost provider reputation, don’t increase lawsuit risk, study reveals
Dec 20, 2010
When healthcare providers tell patients about medical errors that happened under their care, the patient is twice as likely to recommend that provider to someone else than if they had not been told about...