A range of for-profit and nonprofit healthcare organizations are responding to elderly people’s increased risk of developing COVID-19 with new services and adapted products.
Rouxbe offers free food safety course
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2020
Rouxbe, an online culinary training program, is offering a free course on food safety to any foodservice organization. Proper food safety can help prevent illness and the transmission of disease, including...
eLearning offerings keep providers up-to-date on outbreak
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 18, 2020
With so much to learn about a new virus — and more attention than ever on infection control — online learning is taking on an outsized role. Talent manager HealthcareSource has released a free set...
Telehealth, technology providers and insurers offer range of services in wake of coronavirus
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 10, 2020
As the novel coronavirus spread to at least 35 states this week, healthcare vendors and insurers scrambled to help skilled nursing providers prepare for a battle against potentially fatal respiratory infections. ...
More than two-thirds of skilled nursing providers “sometimes” or “often” staff shifts without enough workers, according to a new survey by recruitment and hiring management firm OnShift. The first...
Verdure planting new life in senior living
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 28, 2020
Verdure is now marketing its LIVE Moss Wellness Walls to senior living and long-term care settings, touting air quality, mood and staff productivity improvements. The self-sustaining ecosystem uses flowing...
Cambridge provides $24 million in HUD refinancing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 21, 2020
Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has provided two HUD Lean loans totaling $24 million to refinance The Vista Care Center of Lisbon, OH, and Vista Center at The Ridge of Mineral Ridge, OH. The Vista...
Cambridge provides $24 million in HUD refinancing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 14, 2020
Cambridge Realty Capital Companies has provided two HUD Lean loans totaling $24 million to refinance The Vista Care Center of Lisbon, OH, and Vista Center at The Ridge of Mineral Ridge, OH. The Vista Care...
Seniorlink adds Fronckiewicz to C-suite
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 18, 2019
Seniorlink Inc., a leading tech-enabled health services company has appointed Diane Fronckiewicz, J.D., as its new vice president, chief compliance and privacy officer. She will oversee all regulatory,...
Telepsychiatry helps reduce antipsychotics, others’ use
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 14, 2019
An Encounter Telehealth analysis of 40 rural skilled nursing facility partners in Iowa revealed a 6.7% reduction in the use of antipsychotics following 14 months of psychiatric telehealth services. Some...