Report: Flu antivirals shorten hospital stays, infection chances, death risk
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 29, 2024
A series of new reports assessed how well antiviral medications worked to prevent and treat the flu.
State’s reform bill creates CNA training program, adds new survey requirement
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 29, 2024
Sweeping reforms to Massachusetts’ long-term care industry that would raise providers’ rates while enacting stricter disclosure requirements on facility sales are one step closer to becoming law.
Staffing agencies to pay $700K for overcharging nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2024
Two national staffing agencies will pay more than $700,000 combined to resolve allegations that they billed long-term care facilities too much for nursing services in one of the two states with rate caps.
Also in the News for Thursday, Aug. 29
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2024
Nursing home maneuvers help land SEIU 1199 president atop list of powerful labor leaders … Denver officials: National staffing firm owes more than $2.3M in stolen wages, fines … Certain diabetes drugs...
Feds killed plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling after insurers’ opposition
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Fred Schulte, KFF Health News
Aug 27, 2024
A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar”...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Aug. 28
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 27, 2024
First-line depression treatments linked to lower falls risk in older adults … Denver officials: National staffing firm owes more than $2.3M in stolen wages, fines … CMS restores NHSN respiratory illness...
First-line antidepressants tied to lower falls risk in older adults
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 28, 2024
Older adults with depression who are treated with first-line antidepressants are less likely to experience a fall with injuries than their untreated peers, a new study finds.
Free mail-order COVID-19 tests start in September
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 26, 2024
Free COVID-19 tests by mail are coming back, federal health officials announced on Aug. 23.
No spike in schizophrenia, other diagnoses among dementia patients after feds crack down on antipsychotic...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 26, 2024
Federal policies designed to reduce use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes did not lead to clinically significantly higher rates of schizophrenia diagnoses among residents and patients living...
How LTC facilities that develop employee-centered cultures can help drive recruitment and retention
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 26, 2024
Senior care leaders can look at problems recruiting and retaining employees as a “gift” to conduct an analysis of the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, a top accreditor says.