CMS to host first MDS 3.0 training broadcast today
Dec 17, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hold the first of three MDS 3.0 satellite broadcasts today from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. EST.
Also in the News for Wednesday, July 10
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 09, 2019
Job vacancies for nurse surveyors causing complaint backlog, Georgia health officials say … Pneumonia patients get too many antibiotics … State officials go door-to-door to find 16,800 Medicaid beneficiaries...
Largest-ever HIPAA settlement rings in at $5 million, should be a lesson to providers sharing computer...
By
Tim Mullaney
May 09, 2014
New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University have entered into the largest-ever government settlement over an electronic data breach, totaling $4.8 million, the Department of Health and Human...
Path of the Patient: Ages and Stages in IBD – EXPIRED
Jan 27, 2012
Clinicians face many challenges when diagnosing and managing patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, known collectively as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Ask the legal expert: What’s the best way to respond to alleged deficiencies?
By
John Durso
Jan 03, 2012
John Durso, Esq., Ungaretti & Harris LLP
Wound Care Feature: Get it in writing
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 14, 2005
As treatment options and regulations have expanded, so has the documentation need for care teams trying to deliver wound care.
Nancy DeFranco can look back with a bit of a wry grin now, but there was nothing...
Proposed law would mandate minimum direct care nurse hours
By
Stephanie H. Kim
Aug 04, 2014
A bill that would establish a minimum direct care nurse staffing hours at Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities was introduced by an Illinois congresswoman last week.
Number of older people with HIV on ART projected to increase
Dec 17, 2021
Simulation model of people with HIV using ART in the U.S. projects increase in overall median age from 50 years in 2020 to 52 years in 2030
12 facilities resume visits
Oct 01, 2020
TEXAS — Just 12 nursing homes had met Texas’ criteria for resuming visitation at their facilities since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as of press time.
Calcium supplements raise dementia risk in women surviving stroke sevenfold, study finds
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 19, 2016
Calcium supplements are tied to an increased risk of dementia in senior women who have had a stroke, researchers have found.