Study: Dementia patients react positively to massage
By
Haymarket Media
Nov 13, 2006
Gentle massage therapy helps to calm agitated dementia sufferers. Also, light and gentle touch along with “verbal encouragement” at mealtime increases their food intake, according to two clinical...
PDPM After the Storm
High-quality care and careful planning will help weather PDPM’s first year
Watertown Square has an executive director
Aug 13, 2013
Susan C. Cwieka is the new executive director of Watertown Square, a 90-apartment senior community, in Watertown, MA. The Residence at Watertown Square is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014.
Butler, champion of seniors’ health, dies at 83
Jul 08, 2010
Dr. Robert Butler, founding director of the National Institute of Aging and a lifelong seniors’ health advocate, died Sunday from complications due to acute leukemia. He was 83.
Providers to need NPI for Medicare, Medicaid enrollment and reimbursement
May 05, 2010
In an effort to crack down on healthcare fraud, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this summer will require all providers and suppliers who qualify for a National Provider Identifier (NPI) to...
Lawmakers tack on Medicaid moratorium bill to major spending measure
May 08, 2008
House Democrats this week attached a high-profile Medicaid moratorium bill to war-funding legislation in an attempt to ensure the bill’s passage.
Nursing home lobbying merger was a long time in coming
By
James M. Berklan
May 30, 2013
Almost immediately after the 2006 schism that threatened to fully tear them fully apart, some stakeholders wanted to see the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care remain united with the American Health...
Experts tell lawmakers: Obama Medicare proposals would hurt long-term care — or maybe not
By
McKnight's Staff
May 22, 2013
U.S. lawmakers heard mixed messages at a hearing Tuesday on how proposed Medicare cost-sharing reforms would impact long-term care. The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health focused in particular...
New York proposes costly Medicaid cuts
By
Haymarket Media
Jan 16, 2004
An interim report released Wednesday by the Health Care Reform Working Group proposed sweeping changes to Medicaid in New York that could save the state and local governments more than $6 billion over...
Medicare reform proposal needs fixes for long-term care physicians, AMDA says
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 15, 2013
Prospective Medicare changes regarding physician payments might unfairly penalize doctors working in long-term care settings, according to a prominent medical directors association.