Hydrogel showed ‘staggering’ results in diabetic cell study
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2017
A new hydrogel created by engineering researchers at the University of Toronto prompts skin cells to crawl toward one another, healing chronic wounds.
A comprehensive approach cuts pressure ulcers in half
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 04, 2016
A team of nurses in Indianapolis cut the rate of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers by 50% and saved about $700,000 a year by introducing new products, interventions and incentives.
Until Ukrainian caregivers can rest, we can’t look away
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2022
It hurts to think of those whose fate rests solely with their Ukrainian caregivers, who have families and lives of their own to consider. But you’ll miss something important if you look away.
When the world spun out of control, they stepped up for residents
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 14, 2021
The heroes were everywhere late Friday in Arkansas and Kentucky, as savage tornadoes bore down directly on at least four nursing homes. As McKnight’s shared yesterday, one of the storm system’s most...
Inovalon launches InfectionWatch for providers
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 10, 2020
Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based platforms, has launched an infection surveillance and reporting solution that provides healthcare facilities with data-driven insights to empower real-time identification...
Seniors rocking kindness
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 28, 2018
About 20 seniors at Chestnut Knoll Residential Care and Memory Care are planning to rock some strangers’ lives, one lilac or Kelly green stone at a time.
PCC analytics more robust for COVID-19
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 01, 2020
Senior care software provider PointClickCare Technologies has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by offering additional data collection tools and more robust analytics.
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.