Project Firstline shares infection prevention tools from National Healthcare Quality Week … WHO eyes individualized approach to antimicrobial resistance … Tai Chi can ease symptoms from Parkinson’s...
New state staffing ratios unearth ‘grave’ concerns about vacant jobs, empty beds
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 24, 2023
Despite increased state funding that has allowed nursing homes to provide raises for existing staff and increase starting salaries, the number of Pennsylvania providers limiting census due to staffing...
Adapt, or the desire for flexibility will drive workers away, providers warned in McKnight’s survey
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2023
Flexibility, already a major buzz word in the skilled nursing sector, is becoming an even more critical tool for hiring managers and building leaders in 2023, results of the latest McKnight’s Mood of...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Oct. 11
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Kristen Fischer
Oct 11, 2023
Nursing home turnover linked to poor health, safety … Mupirocin can combat Staph in critically ill people … Intervention lowers catheter-linked UTIs at hospital … Healthcare workers use EHRs differently...
Poll: 62 percent of older adults don’t want age to dictate if they can be screened for cancer
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 29, 2023
A new poll finds that 62% of people between the ages of 50 and 80 don’t want guidelines for determining when to stop cancer screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies, to be based on life expectancy.
Failure to account for cognitive limitations threatens reliability of complaint process: researchers
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Josh Henreckson
Feb 02, 2024
Regulators haven’t found a way to fully account for the ways Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias affect the nursing home complaint process, likely leaving some deficiencies unaddressed, a new study...
Also in the News for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 13, 2024
Fortune targets for-profit nursing home ownership, questions ties to declining quality … DOJ’s new whistleblower rewards program targets corporate misconduct … VA activates Oracle EHR at first new...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Sept. 26
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 26, 2023
Adoption of robotics, analytics growing among largest senior care organizations: LZ200 … Proposed revisions to Washington state ’s long-term care insurance plan launch new wave of protests … AARP...
The 2023 McKnight’s Mood of the Market survey: Pay up if we’re ‘never going to get caught up’
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 31, 2023
The staffing crisis in long-term care is showing signs of easing, but many building leaders still want higher pay in exchange for the extra work they’re putting in, according to results from the fifth...
Social determinants of health in older adults with multiple conditions tied to ER visits: study
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Kristen Fischer
Apr 26, 2024
Certain social determinants of health are linked to emergency department visits in older adults who have two or more chronic conditions, a new study finds. The authors called for interventions to affect...