Palliative care, specialized medical care focused on treating the symptoms and stress of serious illness, should be the standard of practice for all elderly people in skilled care settings.
Irma couldn’t wipe out provider’s plans to package holiday cheer for homebound seniors
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Sep 20, 2017
For 400 volunteers at MorseLife Health System in West Palm Beach, FL, nothing — not even Hurricane Irma — could get in the way of sharing the joy of the High Holidays with homebound Jewish seniors.
LPN charged with arson, attempted murder after nursing home fires
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Apr 07, 2017
A licensed practical nurse at a Louisiana nursing home is facing charges of attempted murder and arson after allegedly setting five fires within the facility.
Brius Healthcare gets most citations for serious deficiencies, but it’s the state that gets the...
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Kimberly Marselas
May 04, 2018
California’s oversight agencies have not met their responsibilities when it comes to ensuring quality care at the state’s nursing homes, even as the three main providers there have grown into...
Home-based acute care pilot drops transfers to skilled nursing facilities
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Marty Stempniak
Jun 26, 2018
A “hospital at home” pilot program, tested by one New York healthcare system, reduced transfers to skilled nursing facilities, a new study finds.
Study: Resident symptoms, risk factors aren’t enough to predict hospitalization
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2018
A lengthy trial designed to optimize transfers from nursing homes reduced avoidable hospitalizations by 33%, researchers report.
Ask the Payment Expert about … the new MDS Section
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Patricia Boyer
May 04, 2016
Can you explain the new MDS Section and assessment?
Ask the Nursing Expert… about preventing burnout
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Angel McGarrity-Davis, RN, CDONA, NHA
Sep 04, 2015
Our nursing home has been really short of nurses, so we’ve all been working a lot of overtime. How do we prevent burnout?
Dangerous profession: nursing home assistants report three times the injuries of other workers
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2018
Certified nursing assistants have one of the highest reported rates of injury across the country and in Ohio, according to a review of injury data and first-person stories reported this week by The (Cleveland)...
Comfort bathing
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John Andrews
May 02, 2011
The key to granting residents’ personal bathing preferences starts with creating a dignified environment they can enjoy and then adding comfortable elements.