What long-term care operators are doing to comply with federal vaccination rule by first deadline
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Danielle Brown
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 11, 2021
It’s all hands on deck as long-term care operators quickly develop implementation plans to comply with the new federal COVID-19 vaccination rule for workers with the first deadline just over three weeks...
‘Crying wolf’ or dying breed? Incentives often ignore plight of rural skilled nursing operators
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2024
As hundreds of nursing homes have shuttered in the last few years, the very strategies meant to prop up the sector have often left the most isolated, resource-strapped facilities with nothing gained.
Maverick blazes pet therapy trail
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2018
As far as visitors go, Maverick isn’t necessarily an obvious fit at the nursing homes he frequents around Australia’s capital. Sure, the 2-year-old has good manners and loves to dole out kisses....
‘We will not go back’ to early pandemic restriction, CMS leader says
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Kimberly Marselas
Joe Bush
Oct 17, 2022
Promoting a return to normalcy, a top CMS official said Sunday that nursing homes will not return to the stringent isolation policies of the early pandemic.
Geriatric prisoner demand leads iCare to new business, expanded mission
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 17, 2023
A decade after it launched its first program for patients who had been released from the criminal justice system, iCare Health Network has become an in-demand resource on providing care for such complex...
AG nabs $175K settlement, pushes provider out of sector over COVID lapses
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2022
A Massachusetts nursing home owner is out of the business and out of $175,000 due to a legal settlement over alleged insufficient infection prevention practices at the start of the pandemic.
Ratings galaxies apart: Government’s Nursing Home Compare gravitates toward clinical while Yelp...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2018
Social media users who rate nursing homes often do so using more service-oriented criteria than government officials, say academic researchers who took a deep look at how Yelp reviews of nursing homes...
Dementia pain index lands Medasense new grant
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 07, 2020
A pain response monitoring index designed specifically for noncommunicating dementia patients has earned Medasense Biometrics an innovation grant to further its use. The grant from the Israel Innovation...
BREAKING: RN in insulin killing case charged in 17 other nursing home deaths
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
Heather Pressdee, 41, is accused of wrongly administering insulin to patients, often in extremely high doses, and often to patients who were not diabetic. In total, state prosecutors said Thursday, 17...
Advocacy group calls on CMS to increase Medicare audits, expand review criteria
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2018
The Council for Medicare Integrity this week asked Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to expand efforts to reduce improper Medicare billing as heading off some planned program cuts.