JAMA author predicts long-term care workforce vaccination challenges
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 01, 2020
Long-term care facilities are likely to face multiple challenges when it comes to inoculating staff members against COVID-19, despite federal efforts to rush any approved vaccine to their doors.
HMMC launches COVID-19 product exchange site
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 24, 2020
HMMC, the Healthcare Manufacturers Management Council, is facilitating the sale and exchange of COVID-19-related products with a new website. Members of HMMC and nonmember healthcare manufacturers can...
Providers critical of Trump budget, which would cut Medicare, kill AHRQ, slash IT agency
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has unveiled his spending priorities for 2019, releasing a budget that would eliminate 22 programs and agencies — including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — and...
Nursing home survey processes to be pared back, new MDS items added in 2024: CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 07, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be testing truncated survey processes starting in 2024, part of an effort to make on-site inspections more efficient as the agency deals with multiple...
Big Apple visitor gives Australian facility resident ‘best’ day of her life
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2018
A walk through the halls of her Australian nursing home turned into the best day of Berenice Benson’s life when she found herself escorted by one of New York City’s finest.
As skilled nursing ‘teeters,’ leaders look to DC for help on pay rule and more
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 02, 2022
More than 500 skilled nursing providers are expected to arrive in Washington, D.C., Monday ready to press federal lawmakers for solutions on staffing and revenue issues that threaten patient access across...
Nursing home fights for right to end temporary bonuses, avoid $369K payout
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2024
Can a nursing home end an emergency bonus program for unionized workers without negotiating after a contract has expired?
Why CMS is shifting its infection control focus to sepsis
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 11, 2024
BALTIMORE — Quality experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be taking a closer look at sepsis rates in nursing homes while continuing broader efforts to improve infection control,...
Senator demands VA answers on oversight of state-run vets’ homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs has three weeks to deliver an accounting of the inspection and quality control processes it uses to assess a network of more than 150 state-run veterans homes.
As seniors’ presence in nursing homes drops, young people with disabilities stuck with few alternatives:...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 04, 2022
Younger nursing home residents, despite dramatically different needs than their older counterparts, have been overlooked by existing efforts to deinstitutionalize care, according to a study published in...