CDC: A quarter of American adults have been diagnosed with arthritis
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Haymarket Media
May 17, 2004
More than a quarter of American adults have been diagnosed with arthritis and another 17% may be suffering from it, according to a 30-state survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
Q&A with Christina Hasemann: Firm hand manages best
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Haymarket Media
May 15, 2004
Studying leadership styles of nursing home administrators for her doctoral research at Marywood University in Scranton, NJ, veteran nutritionist Christina Hasemann wasn’t surprised to find that the...
Beverly bestows $1 million on school of nursing for geriatric nurses
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Haymarket Media
Apr 08, 2004
Long-term care giant Beverly Enterprises is providing a $1 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to provide scholarships and support for students interested in geriatric nursing.
Q&A with Walter Collins: Admins facing ‘new world’
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Haymarket Media
Mar 22, 2004
Administrators today need to be able to juggle more tasks than ever before to “maintain their sanity,” says the incoming leader of the American College of Health Care Administrators. Plus he...
Report lists ‘best’ and ‘worst’ areas for nursing home care
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Haymarket Media
Mar 18, 2004
Los Angeles and San Diego are two of the best cities in which to receive nursing home care, according to HealthGrades’ latest annual list of best and worst cities for quality long-term care. HealthGrades...
Report: Obesity in elderly may raise healthcare costs
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Haymarket Media
Mar 10, 2004
Treating medical conditions related to obesity in seniors could account for 20% of healthcare dollars spent by 2020, according to a study in Health Affairs. The study found a 44% increase in healthcare...
Providers have low hopes for better reimbursement
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James M. Berklan
Mar 09, 2004
Long-term care providers may find themselves in a situation this year where no news is good news regarding reimbursement.
Then again, they probably aren’t really going to have much of a choice: In...
Fire-safety bill mandating resident notification sails along
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Haymarket Media
Mar 03, 2004
The Tennessee House voted 93-0 in favor of a bill that wound force nursing home operators to tell prospective resident whether their facilities had fire-suppression sprinklers. The bill goes back to the...
Poll: Most seniors don’t understand the Medicare reform law
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Haymarket Media
Feb 27, 2004
The majority of seniors (64%) said they followed the Medicare reform law closely. However, only 15% understood it very well, according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Assisted living administrators earn median $53,040
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Haymarket Media
Feb 17, 2004
The national median salary of assisted living administrators is $53,040, up 3% from a year ago, according to the Assisted Living Salary & Benefits report released by Hospital & Healthcare Compensation...