Legacy Healthcare, Citadel Healthcare named ‘Best’ skilled care places to work
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James M. Berklan
Sep 07, 2022
Legacy Healthcare was rated No. 1 Wednesday, when Fortune announced its Best Workplaces for Aging Services lists.
New, re-emerging diseases top infection prevention cares
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John Hall
Jun 09, 2023
As COVID-19 becomes a disease we live with, IPC professionals must turn their attention and resources to preventing the next pandemic
SNF operator, exec, to pay $2.5 million in false therapy claims case
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Oct 17, 2016
A Massachusetts-based skilled nursing operator and its director of long-term care have agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve allegations that the company submitted inflated Medicare claims for therapy...
Strong clinical workforce protects against functional decline in nursing homes, review finds
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 17, 2022
“Dramatic” yearly functional decline up to 51% among nursing home residents may be alleviated by a strong workforce and the onsite presence of geriatricians, a new study finds.
Help keep Holocaust survivors out of long-term care facilities, panelists urge Congressional lawmakers
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 17, 2014
Strenuous efforts should be made to provide aging Holocaust survivors with home care, because institutional settings tend to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder for this group, experts told lawmakers...
ACA replacement plan unlikely to come this year, Senator says
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Jun 05, 2017
Providers aren’t likely to see the Senate formulate a healthcare plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act this year, according to one Republican lawmaker.
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.
Supreme indifference
By
John O'Connor
Aug 01, 2014
It has been said that we are the residue of our choices. If that’s true, what should we make of the Supreme Court these days?
COVID-19 upsets balance of wound healing and practices
By
John Hall
Nov 01, 2020
Virus may hurt wound recovery, while limiting nursing home workers can hinder conventional wound therapy.
FDA panel recommends second J&J coronavirus vaccine dose for adult recipients
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 18, 2021
Independent experts have unanimously agreed that a full second dose of the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine be offered to adults aged 18 years and older at least two months after receipt of the first...