While skilled nursing providers have always wanted an easy way to look up regulations, the need spiked following the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ debut of new F-tags in late June.
Just a part of the job?
By
John O'Connor
Dec 04, 2015
Who has the most dangerous jobs in America? Police officers? Firefighters? Loggers? How about healthcare workers?
ACO patients report higher satisfaction, better care coordination
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 03, 2014
Seniors are more satisfied with their healthcare and believe it is more coordinated if their providers are part of an Accountable Care Organization, according to first-of-its-kind research from the Harvard...
He’s tuned in to resident choice
By
Mary Gustafson
Jun 01, 2011
When iPods, the popular portable music players, started to become ubiquitous in about 2006, licensed social worker Dan Cohen Googled “iPods and nursing homes.” He found no connection between...
MetLife exits long-term care insurance market
Nov 15, 2010
MetLife, which currently provides long-term care insurance to 600,000 people, announced Thursday that it is discontinuing sales of long-term care insurance (LTCI), effective Dec. 30.
The power of feedback
By
John Andrews
Nov 01, 2011
Operators have discovered that keeping residents and their families satisfied can help all facets of managing the business — including the bottom line.
State health department didn’t report thousands of nursing home deaths, audit confirms
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 17, 2022
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration purposely manipulated nursing home COVID-19 data in order to mislead the public, an audit by the state comptroller’s office has found.
CDC may be overestimating COVID-19 vaccination stats for older adults, state officials and experts say
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 13, 2021
The agency’s online tracker currently shows that 99.9% of U.S. seniors have been at least partly vaccinated against COVID-19. But this sky-high figure is almost certainly not accurate, observers...
A new SCAN Foundation campaign aims to provide support and provoke discussion or the 10 million millennials who currently act as family caregivers, group executives said.
Sleep deprived, overweight shift workers at higher risk for diabetes: Study
By
John Hall
May 19, 2015
New university-based research claims employees such as nursing home caregivers, factory and shipping workers who work outside normal 9 a.m.-5 p.m. schedules could be suffering a disproportionate share...