Eight months post-hurricane, 20 uprooted residents — and 5 staff members — finally celebrate return...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2018
As Hurricane Harvey bore down on the Gulf Coast last August, 90 long-term care residents from Rockport, TX, boarded charter buses and ambulances to make a trek to safety in the city of Bee Cave.
Recipe contest provides flavor
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
The dietary team at Riverdale’s Hebrew Home sure knows how to stir the pot. Wanting to give residents a better sense of how the industrial kitchen runs — and a little more say over its menu —James...
From COVID-19 hardships come advances
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2020
In areas ranging from telehealth to staffing, the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards reveal providers’ smart new approaches and solutions.
Beyond surface cleaning
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 01, 2014
Providers use room turnover as an opportunity to eliminate sometimes deadly bugs by layering basic cleaning with next-generation solvents and technology
Real Time identifies, analyzes signs of infectious disease in nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2020
Analytics company Real Time Medical Systems can now provide infectious disease surveillance of nursing facilities for government and industry clients. This new service uses built-in links to extract data...
Partners Pharmacy PassPort selected for NJ’s field hospitals
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2020
New Jersey has tapped Partners Pharmacy and its innovative APS Passport system to provide emergency pharmacy services at three field hospitals opening across the state to alleviate the strain on local...
Disgruntled family member arrested after confronting nursing home employee, threatening to bring gun...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 08, 2018
Police have arrested a Connecticut man for confronting a nursing home employee off the grounds and threatening to bring a gun to the facility.
Admissions halted at nursing home that removed patient for smoking
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 11, 2018
A Tennessee nursing home that reportedly moved a resident into a hotel when he refused to stop smoking — despite a strict no-smoking policy — has had its admissions suspended by state officials.
COVID vaccine mandate will survive legal challenges, experts believe
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Kimberly Marselas
Danielle Brown
Nov 10, 2021
The Biden administration is confident that legal challenges to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers will ultimately fail, and legal experts are largely in agreement. As a result, they are...
BREAKING: CMS details vaccination targets in new mandate guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 29, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday issued surveyor guidance on assessing long-term care facilities’ compliance with a federal mandate for healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccinations.