Senior care association opens free COVID test kit program to all providers
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 09, 2023
Industry advocate LeadingAge is now offering free test kits to long-term care providers in all care settings and communities.
Nursing homes in spotlight as gubernatorial hopefuls run on pandemic response
By
Joe Bush
Oct 24, 2022
The challenger to unseat incumbent Gov. Kristi Noem (R) in South Dakota made nursing home reform his focus last week at a campaign stop in front of a new nursing home.
Nursing homes should rethink care standards for AED use in cardiac arrest, doc says
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 21, 2023
Medical directors should reevaluate their facilities’ procedures for CPR attempts, especially the use of AEDs, a Johns Hopkins physician and SNF chief medical officer says in a new review.
New White House vaccine push could elevate LTC pharmacist role
By
Joe Bush
Oct 26, 2022
A pharmacy expert is hopeful a new White House push for vaccinations will empower long-term care pharmacists to play a continued role in COVID prevention and treatment.
Sodium selenate found safe in early trial targeting frontotemporal dementia
By
Alicia Lasek
May 18, 2023
An early-stage study has found that sodium selenate is safe and well-tolerated in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
Lawmakers push to keep ‘ineffective’ new opioids from market
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 08, 2023
Congressional lawmakers have renewed efforts to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to deny drug applications for opioids that are not proven clinically superior to and lower risk than currently...
FDA proposes two annual COVID shots for seniors in ‘simplified’ vaccine schedule
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 24, 2023
In an effort to streamline COVID-19 protection, older adults and others vulnerable to severe disease would receive two annual shots of an updated vaccine, according to a plan to be evaluated on Thursday...
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services, especially for behavioral health, must remain an initial priority over payment reform or quality measurement, members of a congressional...
Measuring patient function a big hitch in creating fair, post-acute pay
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 30, 2022
As a Congressional advisory board grapples with how to bring all post-acute providers under a single payment system, the use of self-reported data continues to raise doubts about the ability to accurately...
Virtual EMR review may improve care delivery during resident transfers, nurses say
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 21, 2023
With the correct supports in place, virtual review of transferred residents’ electronic medical records may help nursing home clinicians deliver continuity of care and effective interventions, LTC nurses...