Regulators delaying new MDS 3.0 nursing home payment system to ‘minimize confusion’
Mar 06, 2009
Federal healthcare regulators on Thursday announced a sweeping round of delays for an updated tool to enhance the nursing home payment system. The rollout of MDS 3.0 is now targeted for October 2010 and...
Profile: Blake Gillman
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Elizabeth Newman
Sep 05, 2018
VP/Director Post-Acute Care Services, Life Care Services
Trump: ‘We’ll see’ if HHS Secretary Price gets fired over use of private jets
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Sep 28, 2017
President Donald Trump is “not happy” with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., after reports surfaced criticizing his use of private jets for official travels.
Senator grills HHS over nursing home workers’ social media abuse
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Mar 10, 2016
The recent surge of cases involving nursing home workers abusing social media has prompted one senator to ask what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is doing to curb the issue.
AHCA applauds Senate passage of IMPACT Act
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Elizabeth Newman
Sep 22, 2014
The Senate approved the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act, drawing praise from the American Health Care Association and the National Association for the Support of Long Term Care.
Ask the care expert about … bed recommendations and entrapment
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Sherrie Dornberger
Sep 05, 2018
We are updating our beds and are possibly adding an assessment to be sure our residents are not at risk for entrapment. Do you have any guidelines for bed recommendations?
CMS to crack down on facilities’ photo, video abuse policies
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Aug 09, 2016
Nursing home surveyors will soon review facilities’ policies on staff members’ social media abuses following several high-profile reports into the issue, federal officials announced Friday.
House lawmakers push CMS to collect Medicare beneficiaries’ mental health data
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Apr 26, 2016
More “robust” data on the mental and behavioral health of Medicare beneficiaries is needed in order to improve the program’s outcomes, lawmakers said last week in a letter to the Centers...
Ask the nursing expert … narcotic destruction
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Angel McGarrity-Davis, RN, CDONA, NHA
Jul 06, 2015
Long-term care facilities all seem to do narcotic destruction a little differently. Could you tell me how to do it to make sure I protect myself?
Code status ‘cheat sheet’ draws scrutiny, nursing home challenges neglect finding
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Tim Mullaney
Dec 12, 2014
A “cheat sheet” to track residents’ code status has become a source of controversy in the case of a Minnesota man who died without being given CPR, according to local news sources.