Owner fined $69K for toying with managers’ pay, repeatedly switching job status
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 09, 2023
The owner of three Michigan nursing homes owes more than $69,000 in back wages after regularly switching the employment status of 45 managers from hourly to salary to evade overtime pay, according to a...
Buddy the rabbit jumps into another year at Colorado nursing home
By
Foster Stubbs
Feb 08, 2023
To paraphrase Elmer Fudd, it’s “wabbit” season at Good Samaritan Society – Fort Collins Village. But the only hunt involved is the hunt for a good birthday gift. Buddy, the community’s “therapy”...
Patients with dementia receive less home health, hospice at end of life
By
Diane Eastabrook
Feb 08, 2023
It is relatively difficult to identify when patients with dementia are within six months of death, a requirement to receive end-of-life hospice care, researchers report.
Rare nursing home sessions on grief, isolation seek solutions for patients, staff
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 06, 2023
A rare series of structured conversations on bereavement and grief in nursing homes is revealing key insights into the emotional, physical and psychological trauma of repeated loss experienced by residents...
Deaths underscore need for staffing, training to manage resident aggression
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 03, 2023
The recent deaths of two nursing home residents who died after attacks by fellow residents in separate incidents has amplified providers’ focus on operating as safely as possible with often unpredictable...
‘Critical access’ not at critical mass, but skilled nursing providers push on
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 02, 2023
Support for the concept of critical access nursing homes is growing among providers, but it has yet to gain much traction among industry leaders or the politicians who would need to create such a safety...
Skilled nursing angst, grit emerge after PHE end date announced
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2023
Nursing home leaders were scrambling to understand the full implications of the newly announced end to the public health emergency while also making plans to fight the return of some less flexible conditions.
6 Iowa long-term care facilities put into receivership, transfers in motion
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 01, 2023
Nursing home operators and advocates across the country are desperately asking for legislative and regulatory relief, but any help that may come will be too late for six long-term care facilities that...
New Jersey high schoolers send love to nursing home residents with letters
By
Foster Stubbs
Jan 31, 2023
Writing a letter has become a lost art in the digital age. It’s much easier to frantically tap away on a keyboard than it is to put pen to paper. At least that’s probably what many high schoolers would...
Ask the wound expert … about wound care’s economic burden
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 25, 2023
Q: What is the burden of wound care on the economy and society at large?