SmartCart makes it easier for providers to manage meds
Apr 06, 2009
EnovateIT recently introduced the SmartCart. Providers can use a touch screen to unlock and open individual patient med-drawers while other patient medications are safely locked away.
Feature: Next to godliness
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 06, 2015
Providers are offering more laundry service variations than ever before, with
options ranging from special wash concentrations to delivery enhancement
Financial literacy 101: Scoop deeply from this alphabet soup, lenders urge SNF operators
By
John Hall
Jan 03, 2019
Bankers say long-term care borrowers would do well to tend to their knowledge of financial fundamentals as much as they do the physical appearance of their landscapes and reception areas when it comes...
Running the track
By
John Andrews
Mar 01, 2012
Staying current on wound care tracking methods is essential for clinicians and other staff members working in today’s long-term care clinical environment.
LEEDing the way
By
Julie Williamson
May 01, 2012
Operators who chose to pursue certification touting their devotion to environmentally friendly construction practices can reap big rewards.
Rally the troops
By
Julie Williamson
Dec 02, 2012
Acquiring new information technology systems is one thing. Making them work well among facility staff is another; experts give recommendations.
Revised Employee Free Choice Act still threatening to long-term care employers
By
Michael Pepperman
Nov 04, 2009
Federal lawmakers have softened some of the language in Employee Free Choice Act legislation. But don’t be fooled. It still would make it easier for unions to form within long-term care facilities.
Genius for strokes
By
Julie Williamson
Apr 02, 2012
At least one stream of long-term care residents hasn’t abated; providers are finding blended therapies are boosting stroke rehab success.
BREAKING: CMS announces shift to broadly expand telehealth Medicare coverage to nursing home beneficiaries,...
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 17, 2020
The federal government is stripping away barriers to Medicare telehealth coverage as a frontline response to the coronavirus outbreak, which feeds on person-to-person contact and has proven deadliest for...
Advocacy group calls for elimination of Part D “lock in” provision
By
Haymarket Media
May 25, 2006
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should do away with the so-called “lock in” provision in the Medicare prescription drug program, according to the Medicare Rights Center.