SNF employee pleads not guilty to murder, ‘flips off’ resident’s family
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Feb 25, 2016
A former nursing home employee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murdering a resident — but not before apparently aiming a crude hand gesture at the resident’s family.
iPads for health services directors
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Silva K. M. Gerety, MPA, MSN, RN, NEA - BC, NHA
Feb 01, 2012
In my many years of practicing nursing and providing care for seniors, it’s exciting to see how new technology can make the lives of those in our profession easier and more satisfying. I’m...
Practice sessions can pay off during surveys, expert claims
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2013
Directors of nursing need to lead their employees through survey practice sessions in order to achieve peak success, a long-term care expert said at the annual National Association of Directors of Nursing...
Advocacy groups plead for end to two-year wait for Medicare coverage for disabled
Nov 14, 2008
Healthcare and disability advocacy groups have launched a campaign to end the two-year waiting period the disabled must endure before qualifying for Medicare.
Editor’s Desk: More ‘optional’ guidance: If they ask, you’ll provide
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James M. Berklan
Jul 01, 2009
If there were ever any doubts that the “culture change” we’ve all heard so much about in recent years was really going to take hold, it’s time to put them to rest.
Copper surfaces in nursing homes could help control norovirus, researchers say
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Tim Mullaney
Sep 12, 2013
Nursing homes should consider installing more copper surfaces to prevent outbreaks of norovirus among residents and staff, according to new research out of the United Kingdom.
State News for August 2015
Aug 05, 2015
The nation’s most populous state is also now home to the largest long-term care workers’ union, which formally chartered in late June.
Medicare Part D premiums down, CMS says, as administration aims to curtail swelling drug costs
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Marty Stempniak
Aug 02, 2018
Premiums for nursing home residents’ prescription drug plans have dipped for the second year in a row, in what the administration hopes is a sign that efforts to curb prescription costs might be...
Larger cells found to respond to injury
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 04, 2016
A professor has discovered a healing process that enlarges cells to maintain the function of injured or diseased tissue.