The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week that effective Oct. 23, it will add an “abuse” icon on Nursing Home Compare to identify skilled nursing facilities that have received...
Beth Williams has been appointed vice president of Life Care Centers of America’s Mountain States Division. In this position, Williams oversees 31 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities in Colorado,...
Steven Cope has been appointed administrator of the Veterans Home of California, Redding, while Jessica Koppes has been named his replacement as the skilled nursing facility administrator there. Cope had...
Chevy Chase House, which recently added on-site rehabilitation services, has hired a new director of nursing, assistant director of nursing and executive director. Kimberly Clynes, Director of Nursing...
The perfect recipe for optimizing employee and patient satisfaction at long-term care and skilled nursing facilities includes two key elements: a well-staffed facility and a team of nursing professionals...
Shouldn’t we avoid transferring people to the hospital if we can treat them in place? Come on, nurses, stop, take a breath, put on your nurse’s thinking cap.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, hoping to provide consumers with more usable information, is employing anachronistic thinking. If agency officials believe the threat of negative branding...
I am opposed to forcing skilled care operators to pay for a problem caused by another entity., which is exactly what will happen if an otherwise well-intended bill becomes law in its current form.
Remember “light duty,” when your certified nursing assistant or nurse gets hurt during a patient transfer and they disappear into an eternally deep black hole? What is the definition of light duty?...
