Hospice owner accused of telling nurses to overdose, kill patients
By
Mar 31, 2016
The owner of a Texas hospice company has come under fire for allegedly encouraging employees to overdose patients and hasten their death in order to avoid the federal reimbursement cap for hospice stays.
Assertiveness training called key to improving nursing care
By
Alyssa Salela
Sep 06, 2017
Nurses showed short- and long-term benefits after just three hours of an assertiveness training program, according to results from a University of Miyazaki study.
Sixty Seconds With…Ruta Kadonoff
Jan 03, 2012
Ruta Kadonoff, VP for Quality and Regulatory Affairs, AHCA
Designing senior living environments for tomorrow
By
Gary Prager, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, CDT
Jan 25, 2011
The most difficult part of moving to a senior healthcare community is making the decision to live there. When designing for the wellness and health of seniors, you need to appeal to not only the seniors,...
Medicare appeals backlog to be fixed by 2020, HHS says
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 06, 2016
Federal health officials say tweaks to the system will enable them to eradicate a massive backlog of Medicare decision appeals in 2019. They made the prediction in a court brief filed in U.S. District...
‘Spending down’ for Medicaid is the most practical LTC financing plan for most Americans,...
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 14, 2014
Forgoing long-term care insurance and relying on Medicaid is the smartest financial planning decision for the majority of unmarried Americans, according to investigators at Boston College’s Center...
Ask the care expert … about top deficiencies
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Dec 01, 2014
We’re hoping to prep our facilities for quality-improvement efforts. Is there a list of the top deficiencies?
Star ratings? Give ’em two big thumbs down
By
James M. Berklan
Jan 01, 2009
For a while, it appeared the feds had pulled it off: Nobody was going to be watching the right hand while the left hand fiddled away.
RAC program fails to adequately reduce improper payments: GAO
Apr 05, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has fallen short in its efforts to prevent improper Medicare payments through the use of recovery audit contractors (RACs),a new Government Accountability Office...
Fracture risks among elderly rise after hospital visits
Aug 18, 2008
People in their 70s who were hospitalized showed a threefold increase in the risk of bone fractures during the year following admission, according to a new report.