LeadingAge CAST launches tool to assist tech adoption
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2019
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has launched a Health Information Exchange (HIE) selection tool, a multipart resource that will help care providers understand, plan for, choose...
Sunbrella, United team up on Origins line
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 05, 2019
United Fabrics, expanding on its longtime partnership with Sunbrella, recently unveiled its first contract collection of performance fabrics. With more than 50 fabric choices, “Origins” is both timeless...
LeadingAge CAST releases Health Information Exchange selection tool
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 29, 2019
The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) has launched a Health Information Exchange (HIE) selection tool, a multi-part resource that will help care providers understand, plan for, choose,...
Sherrill House’s Stapleton appointed to task force
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 29, 2019
The CEO of Sherrill House, a not-for-profit skilled nursing and rehabilitation center in Boston has been appointed to Massachusset’s recently established Nursing Facility Task Force. Gov. Charlie Baker...
Partnership to advance staff development, quality improvement
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 08, 2019
Medline and HealthStream have announced a strategic alliance that will offer a range of workforce development and quality improvement programs to help long-term care providers meet changing regulatory...
Joe Bush
Aug 30, 2019
Joe Bush is the staff writer at McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
From homey to techy
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 17, 2019
Innovation has driven changes in furniture and design over the last decade as providers search for the best combinations for their vulnerable populations.
Rural towns ravaged by healthcare and job losses with latest nursing home closures
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2019
When Minnesota’s Twin Valley Living Center closed late last year, it took with it dozens of beds intended for the town’s frail and elderly. But, as with hundreds of other skilled care communities around...
Nursing homes happy to be left out of CON repeal
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2019
Florida last week repealed the Certificate of Need process once required to build new hospitals or add medical services, but officials left in place pre-approval rules for nursing homes and other facilities....
Bill would prevent firing employees who refuse vaccines
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2019
Nursing homes, hospitals and other employers who require workers to get flu or measles vaccinations would not be able to punish employees who refuse them under pending Ohio legislation. House Bill 268...