CMS discharge program isn’t reaching those with highest readmission risks: study
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 22, 2024
A new report took a deeper dive to see if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ transitional care management (TCM) program is reaching those most at risk. Even though the program is designed to...
Group re-assessing antipsychotic label warning
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 22, 2024
Project PAUSE (Psychoactive Appropriate Use for Safety and Effectiveness) will hold a workshop exploring black box warnings on antipsychotic medication instructions, especially for older adults.
Top US health official takes more heat over nursing home staffing standards
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
For the second time in a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over federal regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on all US nursing...
CMS adds enhanced barrier precautions to infection control guidance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, the...
Report: Caregivers, healthcare workers struggle to navigate dementia care
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 21, 2024
People caring for those with dementia — who include family members and healthcare workers — say it’s hard to navigate the disease within the US health system, according to the Alzheimer’s Association...
Nursing home staff, others fear CDC revisions to airborne transmission guidelines
By
Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Mar 21, 2024
Workers worry that the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of guidelines that hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities that provide health care will apply to control...
New report blasts nursing home citations, rate of abuse tags
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 20, 2024
An organization dedicated to helping seniors find care issued a report Tuesday raising alarm about the number of nursing home abuse citations in 2023, but senior care leaders say a more punitive approach...
Banking on long-term care’s resilience and proceeding with optimism
Mar 18, 2024
Lisa McCracken has observed and strategized within the long-term care sector for more than two decades. Now, as the new director of research and analytics for the National Investment Center for Seniors...
Clinicians working in nursing homes provide better end-of-life care: study
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 19, 2024
Clinicians who work at skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes can be crucial to improve the quality of end-of-life care for residents, according to a new study.
Consulate Healthcare CEO: We’re ‘growing our own’ to rebuild the brand
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2024
After virtually exiting Florida, where it dominated the skilled nursing landscape before a series of regulatory and legal challenges, Consulate Healthcare is repositioning itself as a quality provider...