Q&A: Are you listening? A veteran provider on fostering engagement with Black and brown staff, residents
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 26, 2021
The pandemic has trained a spotlight on numerous healthcare disparities faced by Black and brown long-term care residents. Monica Payne, a veteran clinical manager for Omnicare, says that reflecting on...
Q&A: Clinical best practices when gauging residents’ end-of-life preferences — a POLST expert weighs...
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 29, 2021
There’s a clear need to improve the quality of Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, in nursing homes, says Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. An expert on the subject, she spoke with...
FDA says it’s time to move away from mask reuse
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 13, 2021
Healthcare facilities should move away from decontaminating and reusing disposable masks now that U.S. respirator supply has recovered, the agency says.
Switch to race-neutral equation would affect millions of U.S. kidney patients: study
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 16, 2022
A highly recommended transition away from race-based measurements of kidney function resulted in new kidney disease classifications for 5.5 million patients in an analysis of 39,000, investigators say.
CDC: COVID vaccines safe during pregnancy, allaying a top concern of nursing home workers
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 28, 2021
Pregnancy concerns are cited as one of the top reasons for vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers, but there were no obvious signs of third trimester adverse events among pregnant women who received...
Pandemic has intensified shift away from SNFs as post-acute care destinations: study
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 16, 2021
The decrease in discharges to SNFs could have profound implications for the future of post-acute care and may hasten a reckoning about the instability of the nation’s nursing homes, physician researchers...
Greater use of unpaid post-acute caregivers raises questions about shift to home care: study
By
Liza Berger
Dec 06, 2021
The rate of older adults receiving help with activities of daily living after hospital discharge more than tripled over the study period. Unpaid caregivers likely are providing this care, investigators...
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 14
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 14, 2022
Medical directors can tackle staffing ‘churn’ with these strategies, experts say … Most patients screened for depression don’t receive timely follow-up, VA study finds … Three doses of mRNA vaccine...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Oct. 4
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 04, 2022
McKnight’s announces new Pinnacle Awards program to recognize industry veterans … Supreme Court turns away challenge to U.S. vaccine rule for health workers … Instacart’s new initiative aims to...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Nov. 29
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 29, 2022
With directors of nursing in hot demand, providers act to broaden pipelines … Senior living and care facilities turn away older adults 11K times in 1 month due to the workforce crisis … OTC hearing...