What are your thoughts on the rising attention given to telemedicine? Are we more at risk, using clinicians miles away and viewing resident conditions and records off-site? What precautions or pre-conditions...
FDA takes closer look at antibacterial products
Dec 18, 2013
It may be time to put away the antibacterial hand soap and body wash at home and the office. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday manufacturers of antibacterial products will have to prove the...
Healthcare reform, Medicare just pawns on campaign trail
By
John O'Connor
Oct 01, 2012
When it comes to healthcare reform and Medicare, long-term care operators tend to focus on the so-called small pieces. These include things such as therapy caps, Minimum Data Set payments and forced reimbursement...
Contracts that limit time that employees have to sue come under fire
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 30, 2024
A state appeals court has rejected a plea from several former nursing home workers to reopen a discrimination case against their employer. But in doing so, it may have increased pressure on Michigan’s...
Providers should use technology to reduce antipsychotic drug use, experts say
By
Holly Petrovich
Jul 01, 2015
New technology can help reduce the use of antipsychotics for nursing home residents with dementia, experts said during a McKnight’s Super Tuesday webinar.
Full RUG-IV may yet take effect this year
By
Liza Berger
Nov 01, 2010
The lame-duck session of Congress might take away road blocks to enactment of the full RUG-IV classification system in 2010, a legislative expert said at the American Health Care Association conference...
CMS official, lawmakers reiterate push to minimize institutional long-term care
By
Haymarket Media
Apr 09, 2004
President Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget proposals intend to continue a push toward home- and community-based long-term care, and away from institutional settings, an official for the Centers for Medicare...
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May 02, 2017
Adjusting seniors’ medications can reduce fall risk … Kickback suit involving Alzheimer’s drug dismissed after attorney misconduct … Lawsuit filed against transport company that...
Lawmakers, union attack AHCA’s opposition to nursing home staffing mandate
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 21, 2023
Two members of Congress joined national union leaders Thursday in accusing nursing home owners of diverting federal funds away from patient care in what was ostensibly a rally in support of a federal staffing...
Democrats on Capitol Hill have reached a compromise on the Employee Free Choice Act that would do away with the contentious card-check provision in favor of shorter unionizing campaigns and faster elections,...