Providers came away from early spring meetings with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other federal health officials feeling encouraged about the government’s...
LeadingAge CAST launches tool to assist tech adoption
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2019
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has launched a Health Information Exchange (HIE) selection tool, a multipart resource that will help care providers understand, plan for, choose...
McKnight’s Roundtable: How providers achieve balance in unbalanced times
By
John Hall
Jan 04, 2019
Few issues can throw a senior care provider off center more than the unexpected retirement of a valued nursing director, the loss of a beloved nursing aide to an outside employer, or a series of futile...
Ask the wounds expert … about Doppler ultrasound
By
Fatima Naqvi, MD
Apr 10, 2023
Is it worth buying an audible, handheld Doppler ultrasound to detect arterial insufficiency?
State News
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 12, 2023
Attorney General Letitia James (won a preliminary injunction that requires a nursing home company accused of committing more than $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud to pay for an independent financial...
As pandemic eases, focus on IT safety, automation for gains
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2022
Information technology has risen to the occasion over the past two years to help skilled nursing providers grapple with COVID-19, but IT executives must now ponder other priorities that may have been overlooked...
New Trilogy partnership will tackle workforce turnover
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 01, 2020
In an effort to reduce ongoing turnover issues and promote workforce stability, Louisville-based long-term care provider Trilogy Health Services has entered into a partnership that gives its employees...
State News – October 2023
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
Gov. Tim Walz (D) (pictured) took a budget victory lap at a nursing home late this summer, allowing the operator to ask for continued and more robust support for the sector.
Language barrier voids arbitration pact
By
Marty Stempniak
May 01, 2019
A California nursing facility cannot settle a dispute with a former patient through arbitration, despite her son signing an agreement to do so, an appeals court ruled in April.
60 Seconds with … Jill Schumann
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 04, 2018
Q: What should providers know about trauma-informed care? A: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking for policies that are “culturally competent and trauma-informed” by Nov. 2019. Given...