Conventional wisdom can be a reassuring thing. But sometimes it can be flat-out wrong. Consider 94-year-old Olga Kotelko.
Feature: All together now
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2014
Rehabilitation professionals still are navigating challenges of providing group, concurrent therapies in a world that has come to value individual therapy more
Feature: Prescribing Unity
By
John Andrews
Feb 01, 2014
Assembling a well-coordinated medication management team requires solid communication, collaboration and convergence of clinical professionals
Maryann Timon joins PMD
Jan 23, 2014
Maryann Timon, RN, has joined PMD Advisory Services as the director of post-acute strategies.
Genesis nursing home illegally reneged on job offer to deaf applicant, government charges
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 23, 2014
Managers at a New Jersey nursing home owned by Genesis HealthCare withdrew a job offer to a qualified applicant because he is deaf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charging in a lawsuit...
Nursing home to pay $370,000 to settle charges it asked for family history information in the hiring...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 15, 2014
A nursing home that now is out of business has agreed to a $370,000 settlement in an employment discrimination suit, which included charges that it asked for genetic information as part of the hiring process,...
Proper protection
By
John Andrews
Dec 01, 2013
Long-term care operators need to ensure that their lifeblood — data —is adequately guarded in the case of natural disaster, power outage or cyber attack
Nurse shoots nursing home resident, herself in apparent murder-suicide
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 06, 2013
Authorities were searching for a motive Tuesday after a licensed practical nurse at a long-term care facility in Pennsylvania apparently shot and killed a resident and then turned the gun on herself.
CompanyBriefs
Nov 01, 2013
» The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society partnered with AARP to pilot the “Connecting to Community” program to reduce social isolation. Residents at four Good Samaritan locations...
C. diff sources ‘diverse’: study
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 01, 2013
New research challenges assumptions about how Clostridium difficile is transmitted.