TENA®, an Essity company, announced it has added enhancements to its absorbent product portfolio. TENA® Premium Briefs, Protective Underwear and Heavy Pad incontinence products will now feature TENA®...
$20 million loan for wireless monitoring company
Dec 06, 2017
Oxford Finance LLC announced the closing of a $20 million senior secured term loan with VitalConnect Inc. The company, which makes wearable biosensor technology for wireless monitoring, will use the money...
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Nov 21, 2017
4 residents presumed dead after Pennsylvania CCRC fire … Jury awards SNF resident’s family $1 million in medical malpractice suit … Seniors getting more skin cancer treatments that may...
Wound care company introduces new technology
Nov 08, 2017
Swift Medical has introduced Swift AutoDepth technology, which lets clinicians take wound depth measurements at the point of care using a smartphone camera.
Feed the patient and starve the wound
By
John Hall
Nov 06, 2017
There’s new thinking around the role that good nutrition plays in healing ulcers
Ask the Treatment Expert about … skin integrity meetings
By
Jeri Lundgren
Nov 06, 2017
How can we make our skin integrity meetings proactive and prevent pressure injuries?
CMS could overhaul therapy pay rules in 2018
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Oct 18, 2017
LAS VEGAS – The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent advanced notice of proposed rulemaking could bring a total overhaul of therapy payment rules and be in place as early as October...
Promising signs on the regulatory front
By
John O'Connor
Oct 16, 2017
President Trump is no fan of regulations, and long-term care operators have more than their fair share to contend with. So it’s a welcome breeze when Trump says he wants to start eliminating some...
Curly-fiber briefs could bring care relief
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2017
Incontinence briefs made with spiral-shaped fibers can acidify the skin of older nursing home patients, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.
Ask the Care Expert about … ABSSSI
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Oct 06, 2017
What is an ABSSSI? Doctors have been writing this as diagnosis on our post-acute residents.