Nursing home struggles expected to worsen hospital backlogs
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 04, 2024
Nursing homes’ familiar struggles with insufficient staffing and insurance reimbursements are contributing to growing backlogs of patients awaiting throughput from hospitals to post-acute care across...
State to reward providers for reducing agency nurse use
By
Kimberly Marselas
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 04, 2024
Skilled nursing providers have been working hard to reduce agency dependency in the wake of the pandemic and rising labor costs.
Study: Hearing aid use linked to 24 percent lower risk of death
By
Kristen Fischer
Jan 04, 2024
A new report links wearing hearing aids to a lower risk for dying. The study, published Wednesday in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that adults who regularly wore their hearing aids had a 24% lower...
‘Bleak’ outlook: Unknowns and impossibilities shrink provider optimism for 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 02, 2024
After rebounding from the pandemic’s darkest days, many skilled nursing administrators and nurse leaders are again feeling less-than-excited about the sector’s future heading into 2024.
NLRB’s new joint-employer standard: How it impacts long-term care facilities
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Jennifer Long
Dec 21, 2023
Does your long-term care facility exercise either direct or indirect control of the work conditions for all the outside caregivers and other workers who are on your campus regularly? This will be the important...
MDS, quality reporting changes give providers a ‘bumpy road’ ahead
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 21, 2023
Major changes to resident assessment tools, increasing quality reporting requirements and new state Medicaid payment tools will continue to dog providers well into 2024, a trio of clinical and reimbursement...
“No man is a failure who has friends” — an MDS Merry Christmas
By
Joel VanEaton
Dec 20, 2023
As Christmas and the new year approach, I get nostalgic. I like to think back on good old childhood memories. For me those are the 1970s and ’80s. I remember one Christmas, I was probably 7 years...
Almost 30% of people had mental health problems after loved ones survived stroke, report finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Dec 20, 2023
Caregivers of people who experience a severe stroke experience high levels of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress in the first year after the patient leaves the hospital, a new study finds.
Working together to combat vaccine hesitancy
By
David Gifford, M.D.
Dec 19, 2023
We must ensure that our population has vaccines to fight off common respiratory viruses this holiday season — and beyond.
Holiday gift ideas
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Dec 19, 2023
As I was looking online for ideas for holiday gifts, I was stunned to see so many bizarre ideas are out there. I mean truly bizarre. One I saw was a wool throw blanket that looks like a piece of...