Union ‘demand’ brought about minimum staffing rule: Becerra
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2023
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week took part in a national union event supporting the proposed nursing home staffing rule, giving the labor audience and their leaders credit for...
Nursing home residents can use consumer law to challenge provider medical records practices
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 31, 2019
A Massachusetts woman who received incomplete nursing home records for her mother nearly two months after requesting was justified in using a state consumer law to sue, a court ruled Wednesday.
Dialysis or hospice? Medicare policy that forces kidney disease patients to choose means only 20% get...
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2018
End-of-life care is “categorically different” for patients receiving hemodialysis than for those with other terminal illnesses, a group of doctors said Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Federal court allows civil rights case against public nursing home to proceed
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 27, 2018
A Pennsylvania judge has ruled the daughter of a former nursing home resident can sue a publicly owned facility for civil rights violations that contributed to the mother’s death.
MedTrainer updates offer LTC more compliance opportunities
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 21, 2020
MedTrainer, an award-winning provider of training, compliance and credentialing software, has updated its platform to help long-term care facilities more easily meet safety and quality compliance requirements...
Analysis of antiseptics
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2014
Data-driven strategies, acute-care solutions and natural ingredients will be increasingly important in the battle against HAIs and communicable diseases
A common diabetes medication may lower mortality risk among nursing home residents with COVID-19
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 01, 2020
A study involving hundreds of Veterans Affairs patients shows a link between the diabetes drug metformin and a lower risk of death from COVID-19.
Botched scabies care at Arkansas nursing home led to community outbreak
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2018
An Arkansas facility is facing more than $150,000 in fines and a possible shutdown after a scabies outbreak affected every resident, according to government regulators.
The top long-term care news stories of 2022
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 22, 2022
As the nursing home sector tried to move out of COVID-19’s shadow in 2022, new challenges rushed in. It was a year filled with more, largely unwanted, attention from lawmakers and regulators, and legal...
RN charged with killing two nursing home residents, intentionally drugging a third
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Kimberly Marselas
May 25, 2023
A nurse has been charged in the killings of two nursing home residents by insulin injection and the attempted murder of a third, the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced Thursday morning.