When it comes to electronic health records use, providers are filling a gradually building bandwagon, but struggling with resources and a lack of interoperability
How to do it … antipsychotics management
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John Hall
Jun 05, 2015
Start with root cause analysis, says Denise Wassenaar, RN, MS, LNHA, MatrixCare. Remember that antipsychotics are not FDA- approved for behavioral symptoms in dementia.
Obamacare repeal efforts, Medicare privatization support waning
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John Hall
Apr 28, 2015
While a series of successive defeats may have tempered the resolve of many Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a small group of conservatives is pushing a new approach to fast track such efforts....
Providers testify against post-acute bundled pay bill at hearing
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John Hall
Apr 17, 2015
A top nursing home advocate on Thursday urged killing a bill calling for the bundling of Medicare payments for post-acute care services.
Government regulators might start policing personal monitoring devices
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John Hall
May 29, 2015
The government is keeping a watchful eye on personal monitoring devices and may soon regulate them due to privacy concerns and accuracy claims, consumer advocates and tech gurus recently predicted at a...
Medicare Advantage funding could be cut
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John Hall
Feb 09, 2015
Supporters of Medicare Advantage program are roundly criticizing President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget plan to slash more than $36 billion in its funding over the coming decade.
Nation’s eyes shift to trial where Alzheimer’s and marital consent issues collide
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John Hall
Apr 08, 2015
A trial centers on the brief marriage of two people in their 70s, with one going on trial for having sexual relations with his wife after being told she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Medicaid expansion leading HCBS programs to rethink strategy: Researchers
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John Hall
Feb 19, 2015
Researchers on Wednesday proposed ways to better identify the most susceptible nursing home candidates in order to ease the expected burden on programs designed to keep the chronically ill and frail elderly...
Bundled post acute payment plan could cost SNFs
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John Hall
May 21, 2015
Nursing homes’ loss would be home healthcare’s gain under a controversial plan that would create site-neutral payments for post-acute care.
Nursing home staffing standards reduced severe deficiency citations, researchers find
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John Hall
May 30, 2014
New research supports that improved nursing home staffing levels correlate with better quality of care. But it points to a phenomenon fewer could have predicted: diminished registered nurse hours spent...