Q: Social isolation is being added to the MDS this Oct. 1. How should we care plan this new item?
Patients with dementia receive less home health, hospice at end of life
By
Diane Eastabrook
Feb 08, 2023
It is relatively difficult to identify when patients with dementia are within six months of death, a requirement to receive end-of-life hospice care, researchers report.
Long-term care pharmacy to pay $3 million over dispensing, reimbursement violations
By
Joe Bush
Dec 14, 2022
Residents in nursing homes received controlled substances without valid prescriptions from a long-term care pharmacy that has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations it broke federal law.
Nursing home that took in dozens after local closure now fears for its own health
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 26, 2024
The high cost of caring for skilled nursing patients is squeezing finances at Upstate New York’s Heritage Ministries after it took in a majority of residents from the closing Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation...
Gripped by uncertainty, skilled nursing providers just keep breathing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2024
Uncertainty may very well be the defining outlook for skilled nursing providers in 2024. At the very least, it was the theme that dominated our annual survey attempting to capture your attitudes heading...
Study: Frailty linked to death, but risk may vary depending on where one lives
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 11, 2023
Frailty can affect mortality, but the level of risk depends on where you live, according to a new study.
Prediabetes at midlife tied to later fracture risk
By
Alicia Lasek
May 23, 2023
Clinicians may wish to consider treating prediabetes in women as an early, modifiable risk factor for fracture, investigators say.
Nothing sketchy about the way these art classes bring skill, pride and connection to nursing home residents’...
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 03, 2024
Many might not think of a nursing home as the most likely place to pick up a new art hobby, but the residents of Sanford Health Sylvan Court have been bucking expectations for years.
How to do it… Finding and keeping infection preventionists
By
John Hall
Jan 20, 2023
With the critical shortages in the nursing home workforce today, there may not be a more important hire than the now-mandatory infection preventionist.
Breaking news: The pandemic was hard
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 06, 2022
That pandemic. Wow. While it was happening and people were dying and stuff, I remember thinking, “This is kind of a difficult time we’re going through. I feel a little stressed and anxious.” But...