For-profit providers still on hot seat in final House COVID report
By
Joe Bush
Dec 12, 2022
Months after its first attack, a key House COVID subcommittee on Friday targeted five of the nation’s five largest for-profit nursing home companies over low staffing and wages and slow vaccine booster...
Stress, insomnia linked to irregular heart rhythms after menopause
By
Kristen Fischer
Aug 31, 2023
When it comes to trying to figure out why so many women develop atrial fibrillation (Afib) after menopause, researchers say stress and insomnia can contribute to the diagnosis.
Despite 12 deaths, nursing facilities denied request to be on utilities’ priority list
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 05, 2018
A year after Hurricane Irma killed 12 nursing home residents, senior living facilities have been under pressure to have better emergency preparedness plans during the 2018 hurricane season.
Family pushing for class action lawsuit against provider Revera
By
Oct 21, 2016
The family of a resident who died following a stay at a Canadian nursing home is hoping others will join in a $200 million lawsuit against a provider.
Prosecutors target nursing homes that reject patients needing opioid treatment
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2022
A Massachusetts nursing home must pay a $5,000 penalty and revise its admissions policy over an alleged refusal to accept a patient needing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.
Rehab settings in flux
By
John Andrews
Aug 01, 2014
Providers are establishing therapy rooted in person-centered care, including activities that help cognitive functioning, balance, memory and awareness
Study: Having two copies of gene mutation linked to Alzheimer’s may cause onset
By
Kristen Fischer
May 07, 2024
A new study finds that possessing two copies of a specific gene mutation that’s common in Alzheimer’s disease may be the cause behind the disease in those people.
Birth of a giant? Time will tell us if it’s the right Rx
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 02, 2012
Not all association conventions are remembered equally. Some have dynamite entertainment, some a few great speakers. Often, it doesn’t go much beyond that.
Animal protection group is preying on the elderly
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 01, 2008
Some people, and their groups, are better at furthering the art of tactless solicitation than others. For the latest case of hoof-in-mouth disease, we only have to look to our friends at People for the...
Cheerleaders aren’t only on athletic fields. Kristin DeVries Bolos, a cheerleader in high school and college, took her talent for encouraging others to perform at their best and brought it to the long-term...