California nursing home nurses DO win big in Powerball jackpot
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Feb 03, 2016
It’s not a prank: Thirteen nurses from a California nursing home were one number away from winning last month’s record-setting $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, but will still take home nearly...
SCA splitting: health, tissue division to be called Essity
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Elizabeth Newman
May 06, 2017
SCA, which owns Tork and Tena, has announced they will be split into two separate companies. The Away-From-Home tissue and medical solutions company formerly known under Tena and Tork will be called Essity,...
Judge: Health department was correct in yanking away nursing home’s Medicaid dollars after years of...
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Marty Stempniak
Feb 13, 2019
A New Jersey nursing facility that was overpaid for a decade isn’t entitled to that rate of payment, an appeals court ruled last week.
Nursing home arbitration agreements force consumers to ‘sign away legal rights,’ trial lawyers...
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Tim Mullaney
Oct 31, 2013
Arbitration agreements in long-term care contracts are harming consumers and eroding the U.S. civil justice system, according to a prominent association of trial lawyers.
Hearing: Twenty years after OBRA, system still needs reform
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Haymarket Media
May 03, 2007
The enforcement system regulating nursing homes still allows too many nursing homes to get away with providing substandard care, Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging,...
Government awards grant to Native American tribe to build nursing home
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Haymarket Media
Aug 19, 2004
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded a $270,000 grant to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to build a nursing home and assisted living facility on the tribe’s reservation in Eagle...
Lack of faculty hampers enrollment at college-level nursing programs, study finds
Dec 05, 2008
One nursing association is continuing to push for federal funding for professional nursing programs in light of a recent study that reveals a dire nurse faculty shortage at nursing schools.
Alzheimer’s resident dies after wandering from facility without ankle sensor
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Haymarket Media
Feb 03, 2004
When Charles Klaer wandered from Willow Manor Retirement Living and Memory Support Center in Dania Beach, FL, in early January, officials called his wife to say they wanted him to wear an electronic strap...
Committed to memory
Aug 06, 2008
Kingston Technology Company announced that it has begun shipping its DataTraveler 400 with MigoSync software and DataTraveler 100 in 16 gigabyte capacities. These flash drives let business travelers keep...
State top court rules against enforcing arbitration clauses
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James M. Berklan
Nov 05, 2015
The Kentucky Supreme Court has added a significant decision to the body of rulings concerning nursing home pre-dispute arbitration agreements.
