AARP: Dementia drugs often prescribed long-term without any supporting clinical evidence
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 21, 2018
The majority of elderly dementia patients — about 70% — are placed on long-term courses of drugs to treat the brain disease, despite scant evidence they provide benefits beyond a year.
Retro payments from provider not good enough, NLRB says, after nursing home suspended merit-based pay
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 01, 2018
The National Labor Relations Board is hitting a nursing home operator for “unlawfully” suspending a merit-based raise program.
Nursing home reviews security measures after being robbed of narcotics twice in less than a month
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 27, 2018
An Oklahoma nursing home is reviewing its security procedures after thieves targeted it twice in a month to steal narcotics.
SNF aims to cut ER visits via telemedicine
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 08, 2018
A New Jersey provider is testing out telemedicine services in its skilled-nursing facilities, in the hope that it might cut back on unnecessary ER visits.
Air mattress delayed, now nursing home can’t shake $1M arbitration award
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 16, 2019
A California nursing facility is being forced to pay $1 million after the delayed delivery of a special air mattress may have worsened a resident’s pressure ulcer, contributing to her eventual death.
Nursing homes can treat higher acuity patients without raising their risk of death: Study
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 03, 2018
Skilled nursing facilities can safely take on higher levels of care for their residents to avoid the hospital, and they can do so without raising residents’ risk of death.
Former HHS chief: Nursing homes playing a part in Medicare ‘drifting toward disaster’
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 17, 2019
A former secretary of Health and Human Services and Utah governor believes Medicare is “drifting toward disaster,” requiring immediate attention from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
State investigating nursing home chain that let health insurance lapse for employees
By
Marty Stempniak
Sep 05, 2018
A troubled nursing home chain operating in Massachusetts is now in the state attorney general’s crosshairs after letting health insurance lapse for its employees.
Daybreak Venture is $4M behind on rent, landlord says
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 13, 2019
Omega Healthcare Investors revealed late Monday that one of its tenants had fallen behind on its rent payments by $4 million, with the company agreeing to defer millions in lease costs.
OIG criticizes states for approving nursing homes’ plans of correction without checking them
By
Marty Stempniak
Feb 12, 2019
The Office of the Inspector General says state agencies aren’t doing enough to make sure that nursing homes are correcting deficiencies.