Brookdale settles with EEOC for $112,000 in disability accommodation case
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Aug 19, 2015
A Denver senior living provider will pay $112,500 to settle a lawsuit that claims it failed to provide accommodations for, and subsequently fired, an employee with fibromyalgia.
Lancaster Pollard announces deals
Aug 18, 2015
Lancaster Pollard recently helped The Lutheran Care Network refinance a New York facility with a $12.3 million loan. The loan was insured by the FHA Sec. 232/223(f) program.
WSJ digs into Ultra High therapy billing
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Aug 18, 2015
Fifty-four percent of the therapy nursing that homes billed to Medicare in 2013 was at the “Ultra High” level, up from just 7% in 2002, a prominent story in the Wall Street Journal reported...
Evaluating extensive versus moderate assist
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Renee Kinder
Aug 17, 2015
Step one for improving accuracy for Section G ADL coding is to improve understanding between the language MDS uses to define levels of function and impairment in comparison to how rehab teams and nursing...
A dangerous combination at too many nursing homes
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John O'Connor
Aug 17, 2015
It would appear that nursing facilities are becoming more reluctant to admit younger people with mental illnesses. At the risk of sounding like an insensitive jerk, that’s a good thing.
Blended lessons
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Elizabeth Newman
Aug 12, 2015
In an attempt to cook, a good lesson emerges in knowing one’s limits.
MDS data may hasten timely evacuations
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Anna Fisher, Ph.D.
Sharon Metcalf, Ph.D.
Aug 06, 2015
It’s no surprise that natural disasters and man-caused emergencies disproportionately affect older adults.
Tackling a negative workplace
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Paul White
Aug 05, 2015
Long-term care workers are inundated daily with reasons to be emotionally and physically stressed.
Ask the Care Expert … about handwashing
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Sherrie Dornberger
Aug 05, 2015
Believe it or not, we are having a hard time getting our staff to comply with handwashing. Do you have any suggestions to help us let staff know it is urgent that everyone washes their hands?
Profile: Naushira Pandya, M.D.
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 05, 2015
After spending her childhood in Uganda and completing her early medical training in England, Naushira Pandya, M.D., was shocked by what she first witnessed as an American doctor.