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AHCA joins hospital association in urging for more time on complex interoperability rules
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 25, 2019
The nation’s largest nursing home lobbying group has joined the American Hospital Association to urge federal health officials to hold off on new interoperability measures.
Feds seeking input on ways to relax HIPAA rules, ease communication with nursing homes
By
Marty Stempniak
Dec 14, 2018
The federal government wants to know whether patient-privacy rules are keeping nursing homes and other providers from better coordination with each other.
$29 million earmarked for nursing home improvements goes unused for years
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 10, 2019
Almost $29 million in funds — collected from North Carolina nursing homes through civil monetary penalties — has sat mostly untouched for years.
Landlord LTC Properties doubts Senior Care Centers’ ability to emerge from bankruptcy as a viable entity,...
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 04, 2019
A California-based skilled nursing landlord says it suspects that Texas’ largest operator will not be able to come out of bankruptcy and is therefore actively looking for another tenant.
Nursing home cited for failure to perform resuscitation
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 24, 2018
A Minnesota nursing home has been cited for neglect after four nurses failed to perform CPR on a resident, even though the resident appeared to have been dead for several hours.
Nursing home must pay interest on once-vacated $2M damages
By
Marty Stempniak
Nov 29, 2018
A judge is forcing a North Carolina nursing home to pay interest on $2 million in damages awarded last year, even though the original award had been temporarily vacated.
Nursing home must pay $85K fine for improperly cleaning glucose meters
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 30, 2019
A recent fine of one Buffalo, NY, nursing home reminds providers to exercise caution when using shared blood glucose meters.
CNA indicted for stealing peer’s identity to gain work at nursing home
By
Marty Stempniak
May 01, 2019
The state of New Jersey indicted a former certified nurse aide on Monday for stealing someone’s identity to earn a position at a nursing home.
$5K fine for opioid refusal
By
Marty Stempniak
Jun 08, 2018
A skilled nursing facility that denied admission to a patient receiving treatment for opioid dependency has settled federal discrimination charges. Charlwell Operating LLC, owner of the 124-bed Charlwell...