New toolkit teaches providers how to create intergenerational programming … ‘Staff out there crying’: Skyline closures begin in Massachusetts … Nursing home killers suffocated up to a dozen patients,...
Today’s mobile LTC resident can add layers of complication to bathing safety
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
Given an increasingly ambulatory population, the presence of water and the kind of warm and moist environment that invites bacteria to breed, risk is inherent in skilled nursing bathing areas.
Ask The Treatment Expert: Wounds and PDPM
By
Jeri Lundgren
May 01, 2019
Ensuring proper diagnoses and assessments of wounds is key. Under the Patient-Driven Payment Model, wounds can impact reimbursement under the nursing and non-therapy ancillary (NTA) components.
New approach yields no new ulcers after 1,181 bed days
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A strategy combining multiple wound prevention practices with behavior modification techniques helped prevent new pressure ulcers during a single-site study in England.
Skin-like sensors could detect healing
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A new form of electronics that integrates with human skin could allow wound tracking in real time over long periods.
Hydrating ointment, moisturizing cream released
By
Elizabeth Newman
May 01, 2019
Dynarex has added two new personal care products to the “We Care” brand.
SNF nurses, residents circulating petitions to prevent Skyline closures
By
Marty Stempniak
May 01, 2019
Five Skyline Healthcare nursing facilities in Massachusetts were officially ordered into receivership Monday and are set to close this month, but staffers and their patients are fighting back.
‘It’s an absolute nightmare’ — Skyline surrenders licenses as nursing facilities will now close
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 26, 2019
Several Massachusetts skilled nursing facilities run by embattled Skyline Healthcare are closing, days after they were placed into receivership.
More Skyline nursing homes fall into financial disrepair
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 25, 2019
Five Massachusetts nursing homes owned by troubled operator Skyline Healthcare appear to be in financial disarray, with employees and vendors left unpaid.
State says it plans to crack down on nursing home operators with shaky finances
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 24, 2019
Kansas is forcing nursing homes to provide more details about their finances in a bid to prevent operators from falling into insolvency.