LeadingAge releases booster shot toolkit for senior living, home care settings
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 06, 2021
The kit provides links to sources of support for on-site booster clinic set-up and guidance for administrators who must encourage off-site vaccine access.
Medicare service providers cannot object to a Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor’s (RAC) decision to re-open a payment decision, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
New blood pressure target for kidney patients could impact millions, experts say
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 24, 2021
An estimated 24 million Americans with chronic kidney disease are candidates for intensive blood pressure control under new guidelines from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, say Johns Hopkins...
Skilled nursing’s ‘pain points’ persist, including 69% median occupancy
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 26, 2021
Occupancy continues to be a “pain point” for skilled nursing operators during the new year, according to the latest insights from CliftonLarsonAllen.
Study: Mechanical lifts improve injury rates in long-term care facilities
Apr 11, 2011
Making safe-lift programs a priority at long-term care facilities could be the key to reducing injuries and worker compensation costs, according to a new report.
CMS: Educate, vaccinate and be ready to prove it
By
Danielle Brown
May 14, 2021
Nursing home operators must be ready to prove they provided education and offered both residents and staff the COVID-19 vaccine once enforcement of a new interim rule begins next month.
More than half of Americans now have antibodies against COVID-19, CDC reports
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Apr 27, 2022
Nearly 58% of Americans had antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 by February 2022, meaning that a majority of the country’s population has been exposed to the virus, new CDC data reveals.
Unique form of dementia is common, may require alternate therapies, experts say
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jun 15, 2022
Brain changes linked to a recently identified form of dementia may be present in fully 40% of older adults, neurologists say.
COVID-19 harbinger: loss of taste or smell
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 19, 2020
Clinicians may play a pivotal role in early COVID-19 diagnosis when taste and/or smell alterations manifest, say investigators.
Functional limitations more than double over 20 years among U.S. cancer survivors
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 08, 2023
More lives are being saved from cancer, but the findings underscore the need for greater access to high quality survivorship care, investigators say.