Kindred teams with Omnicare, splits with skilled nursing pharmacy PharMerica
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 24, 2013
Major long-term care provider Kindred Healthcare will split with its current pharmacy partner, PharMerica, and team with the sector’s largest pharmacy, Omnicare, at the end of 2013, according to...
Provider groups protest MedPAC recommendations to reduce therapy caps
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McKnight's Staff
Jun 18, 2013
Resident care would suffer and providers would shoulder a larger burden if Congress acts on the latest recommendations from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, advocates for the long-term care sector...
Putting first things first
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McKnight's Staff
May 01, 2013
A recipe for a complicated nursing home renovation: Take one facility that hasn’t been updated in 45 years, add a strict budget and keep residents on site throughout the project. Columbia Health...
People still misunderstand, avoid thinking about long-term care, poll shows
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 25, 2013
Americans don’t like to think about their eventual long-term care needs and don’t have a realistic understanding of how the long-term care system works, according to a poll released Wednesday....
$90 million verdict against HCR ManorCare will stand, judge rules
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 15, 2013
HCR ManorCare was appropriately penalized $90 million in a case involving resident neglect and understaffing, a judge in West Virginia ruled last week. Lawyers for the nursing home company said they would...
Nursing home loses rosary case; ordered to pay ex-employee $70,000
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McKnight's Staff
Oct 16, 2012
A Mississippi nursing home has been ordered to pay nearly $70,000 in damages for terminating an employee for not praying the rosary.
Former exec alleges Florida hospice filed claims for patients not terminally ill; government joins lawsuit
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McKnight's Staff
Sep 10, 2012
The federal government has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against a Florida hospice over what it says were fraudulent Medicare payments, the Department of Justice announced.
Drug pipelines far from full, report finds
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McKnight's Staff
Oct 01, 2012
With new and novel medicines launched the last couple of years for diseases such as cancer, hepatitis C virus and multiple sclerosis, one would think that pharmaceutical pipelines are gradually improving....
Program to reduce hospital readmissions would link nursing homes with partners
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 15, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is setting aside $128 million for organizations that collaborate with nursing homes to establish programs that prevent residents from going back to hospitals...
Nursing home administrators can rise to ‘unrealistic expectations’ with disaster management,...
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McKnight's Staff
May 22, 2013
One day after a powerful tornado destroyed a hospital and devastated an Oklahoma town, long-term care stakeholders gathered at a disaster preparedness conference organized by the Center for Preparedness...