Ask the nursing expert: first state survey jitters
By
Anne Marie Barnett
Nov 01, 2009
Anne Marie Barnett, RN, Former President, Maryland NADONA/LTC
Feds say hospice firm erred in enrollments
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 01, 2012
The federal government has joined a whistleblower complaint that alleges a major hospice company defrauded Medicare.
Ask the treatment expert: Is an infection indicated after two weeks without healing?
Apr 01, 2011
Susan Wickard, RN, BSN, CWCN, CWS, CLNC, Clinical Advisor, American Association for LTC Nursing
Interoperability experts see bright future including LTC
By
John Andrews
Mar 01, 2014
In the 10 years since the Bush Administration launched its healthcare interoperability initiative by creating the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, a lot of progress has been made toward...
Ask the legal expert … about pressure-ulcer product promises
By
John Durso
Aug 01, 2013
What happens if we contract with an alternate pressure-surface vendor that claims we’ll lower our pressure-ulcer rates by using its product, but our incidents actually increase? Can we sue?
Gone fishin’ in a Utah parking lot
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2018
John Gibson had never been fishing, and at his age, getting to a river or out on the boat wouldn’t be an easy outing.
Government is lax in issuing serious citations for antipsychotic overuse, NPR claims
By
Tim Mullaney
Dec 10, 2014
Only 2% of nursing home deficiencies for inappropriate medication lead to a fine or harsher penalty, suggesting that the government is not doing enough to reduce antipsychotic drugs, NPR reporters argued...
Ask the Care Expert about … infections
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Oct 01, 2016
It seems like we are now making a bigger deal out of infections in the long-term post-acute care settings. How many infections occur in long-term post-acute care? What is the No. 1 infection, and who ultimately...
Jewish Senior Services opens new Connecticut facility
Aug 09, 2016
A new state-of-the-art community from Jewish Senior Services, featuring skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation services, opened on August 4 in Bridgeport, CT.
Ditching certificate-of-need laws will improve SNF access and quality, expert says
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Jun 12, 2017
Nursing home certificate-of-need laws should be jettisoned in order to boost care quality and encourage innovation within the sector, one expert argued last week.