Skilled nursing facilities need more help from experts and their own staffs to become better stewards of antibiotic use, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resource guide.
Vaccination quandry vexes LTC workforces
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 04, 2015
Findings announced by the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases in September show that healthcare personnel in long-term care settings were least likely to be vaccinated against the flu.
Top US health official takes more heat over nursing home staffing standards
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
For the second time in a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over federal regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on all US nursing...
Staff deaths, other elements to be removed from CDC data requirements
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Kimberly Marselas
May 26, 2023
Skilled nursing providers will soon see significant changes to COVID-related data-reporting requirements, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced.
Eldergrow launches Farm-to-Fork kits in conjunction with Earth Day anniversary
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 22, 2020
Eldergrow, known for its indoor gardening programs for seniors, is taking its programming outdoors to celebrate its fifth anniversary. The addition of self-contained, outdoor gardening kits also acknowledges...
Ryan reverses course on targeting Medicare in 2018
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 21, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Wednesday that Medicare reform won’t be a focus for Republicans this spring despite a rash of Democratic warnings about major cuts to the program.
With scope unknown, nursing homes brace for new schizophrenia audits
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Three weeks after federal officials announced they would begin auditing nursing homes for overuse of schizophrenia diagnoses, providers are still looking for answers about what those investigations will...
Judge awards unemployment benefits to nursing home assistant fired over theft
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 06, 2023
A former assistant at a nursing home and senior living facility can receive unemployment benefits, even after he was fired and charged by police for stealing jewelry from a resident.
Government shutdown could put chokehold on public health
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 19, 2018
It remains unclear how a government shutdown would affect the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services if Congress can’t agree on a bill to send the president by midnight.
Latest Alzheimer’s discovery looks like a real eye-opener
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2015
Extra sleep can help fruit flies overcome Alzheimer’s-like memory problems, according to new research out of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.