Illinois must reprioritize payments in order to make a dent in its $2 billion backlog of bills owed to Medicaid providers, including long-term care operators, a federal judge ordered in June.
For-profit providers still on hot seat in final House COVID report
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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...
Despite 12 deaths, nursing facilities denied request to be on utilities’ priority list
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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
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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.
Meet Alla Onitskansky, Hall of Honor Inductee
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Mallory Hackett
Jul 08, 2019
Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Alla Onitskansky moved to the United States and earned her undergraduate degree in physical therapy at Cleveland State University and then her master’s degree...
Clinical briefs for Friday, July 26
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 25, 2024
Hospitals in disadvantaged areas had lower chances of stroke certification, study finds … Report: Biomarkers can spot subjective cognitive decline’s progression to Alzheimer’s disease … Study identifies...
Stress, insomnia linked to irregular heart rhythms after menopause
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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.
Prosecutors target nursing homes that reject patients needing opioid treatment
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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
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...