National Healthcare Decision Day (NHDD) will actually be observed for a week this year. The 50-state annual initiative promoting the importance of advance-care planning will take place from Sunday through...
Also in the News for Thursday, April 13
Apr 13, 2017
Focus on electronic records keeps docs away from patients, study shows … Involving family members in discharge planning cuts hospital readmission rates … 2 arrested at sit-in at Tennessee governor’s...
SCA to split into two companies
Apr 11, 2017
SCA, which owns Tork and Tena, have announced they will split into two separate companies. The Away-from-Home tissue and medical solutions company formerly under Tena and Tork will be known as Essity,...
Making bundled payment models optional would be ‘severe blow’ to program, critics argue
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Apr 11, 2017
Allowing healthcare providers to opt out of testing bundled payment models could deal a “severe blow” to payment reform efforts and the future of the bundled payment program, according to some...
SNF case may shift Supreme Court’s stance on arbitration
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Apr 05, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court may change course away from recent rulings that favored arbitration agreements in a case involving nursing home residents, according to one expert.
Ask the Care Expert about … urinary tract infections
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Sherrie Dornberger
Apr 05, 2017
I hear there is a change with urinary tract infections and that there needs to be a bunch of criteria now before we can say someone has a UTI. Is this true?
Profile: Frank Grosso
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Elizabeth Newman
Apr 05, 2017
A chance conversation with a pharmacist changed Frank Grosso’s life.
Where kindness is king
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Gary Tetz
Apr 05, 2017
As pesky questions about the future of healthcare swirl, let’s give thanks for the one, and maybe only, inviolate cog in the long-term care machinery that’s beyond the power of politicians...
Where’s the indignation been from providers?
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James M. Berklan
Apr 05, 2017
Finally. That was my immediate, silent reaction when I received the email from a top long-term care provider.
Reader Poll: What is the best thing your manager does to help you in your job?
Apr 05, 2017
“He (Board Chairman of the Reformed Church Home Reed Feuster) encourages me. He always makes a point to thank us and offer help. It’s kind of refreshing to get outside support. At the board...