Apollo Safety has formed a new healthcare division with offerings related to gas detection equipment, maintenance and monitoring.
How to prevent overtime, avoid understaffing, schedule with more ease and other labor management issues...
May 25, 2011
Providers interested in learning how to manage their workforce more efficiently will want to tune in to the next McKnight’s free webcast, “Five-Star Success with Labor Management Best Practices.”...
ALFA conference to kick off next week
Apr 01, 2011
The Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA)’s 2011 conference and expo runs from April 5 to 7 in Orlando. Highlights include a session with author and blogger Jeff Jarvis discussing his book...
FDA alerts healthcare providers about negative pressure wound therapy
Nov 17, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert about deaths and serious complications associated with the use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT).
Suitor increases bid for Genesis
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Haymarket Media
May 01, 2007
Fillmore Capital Partners LLC ratcheted up its bid for Genesis HealthCare Corp., raising its proposal price to $65.25 per share, or about $1.28 billion, from $64.75 per share.
California nursing home owner found guilty of withholding $3 million in taxes
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Haymarket Media
Feb 14, 2006
A nursing home owner in San Francisco was found guilty of failing to pay more than $3 million in employee taxes to the IRS.
Beverly CEO blasts takeover group
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Haymarket Media
Feb 01, 2005
An investment group that recently launched a takeover bid of Beverly Enterprises Inc., shrouded its intentions, according to Beverly’s president and CEO. In a blistering letter to Formation Capital,...
‘Hero workers’ may sabotage efforts during flu vaccine shortage
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Haymarket Media
Oct 19, 2004
Employees who come into work sick to avoid unscheduled absenteeism may cause facilities more harm than good, administrators warn.
Report: Average nursing home cost rises to $70,080 annually
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Haymarket Media
Sep 28, 2004
The average price of a private room in a U.S. nursing home costs $70,080 per year, or $192 per day, according to the 2004 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home and Home Care Costs.
New antipsychotic improves symptoms minus side effects in trial
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 10, 2020
Antipsychotic drug lumateperone improves schizophrenia symptoms without side effects such as weight gain and metabolic disturbance.