Benefits of smoking cessation quantified in patients with ASCVD
Apr 08, 2022
About five event-free years gained through either quitting smoking or the use of three medications combined in persistent smokers
Recommendations updated for management of heart failure
Apr 08, 2022
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors recommended for HF with reduced, mildly reduced ejection fraction
Scaling infection control: What success means for your facility
Long-term care facilities wrestle with a spectrum of infections, from isolated cases to facility-wide outbreaks.
McKnight’s Product Theater
Please join us at the McKnight’s Product Theater and learn about the newest innovations from three prominent industry organizations. Sessions are designed to be concise but informative and will offer...
LTC docs push for more training, competency requirements for medical directors
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 11, 2022
It’s time for Congress and CMS to take action and raise the profile and competencies of industry clinicians — especially medical directors, according to long-term care physician advocate AMDA.
MDS self-care item key to planning appropriate SNF rehabilitation goals, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 11, 2022
A self-care item recently introduced to the Minimum Data Set allows therapeutic teams to better assess a resident’s prior health status and help predict what is needed for recovery, investigators say.
Clinical briefs for Monday, April 11
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 11, 2022
Bridge temporary nurse aides to CNAs now, before waiver ends, AHCA warns … These “good faith” efforts count in revised vaccine mandate guidance … U.S. life expectancy falls for second year...
Rise in antipsychotics prescriptions during pandemic warrant closer look, feds say
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 11, 2022
A federal study has found that prescriptions for antipsychotic medication in nursing homes and assisted living facilities increased by 7.4% during the first quarter, or first three months, of the pandemic.
Long-term care reform on a grand scale
By
John O'Connor
Apr 10, 2022
Every now and then a study sizing up the state of long-term care comes along. The one dropped last week is very different from others.
Have we all been convicted of negligence by one being found guilty? Only if we fail to act.
By
Martie Moore
Apr 08, 2022
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) released a statement saying that RaDonda Vaught’s conviction for a fatal medical error has already damaged patient/resident safety and should serve as a...