Nursing home denies hair styling contributed to resident’s death
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Feb 10, 2017
A New Hampshire skilled nursing facility refutes claims that a resident died due to complications from a perm at the facility’s salon, according to new legal documents.
CMS updates operations manual and F-tags for facility closures
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Ashley Carman
Aug 06, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its operations manual updates, including new F-tags for facility closures last week. The updates include amendments to Appendix PP of the SOM, with...
CMS changes nursing home inspections in response to sequestration cuts
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 10, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will change some nursing home survey procedures in response to budget cuts from sequestration, according to memos released Tuesday. The CMS Survey & Certification...
Improved coordination of dual eligibles could save the federal government $125 billion over 10 years,...
Sep 23, 2011
Requiring dual eligibles — individuals receiving both Medicare and Medicaid benefits — to enroll in team-based coordination of care programs could save the federal government $125 billion over 10 years,...
Smooth Saling gets the job done
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Mary Gustafson
May 02, 2011
Before Steve Saling was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in February 2006, he worked as a landscape architect in the Boston area. His disease,...
News report: Illegal nursing-home evictions on the rise
Aug 08, 2008
Increasingly, nursing homes are illegally turning out residents to help their bottom lines, according to an analysis in The Wall Street Journal.
SNFs could lose children as payers if lawmakers step in
Sep 05, 2018
North Dakota is looking at a possible change to a state law that allows nursing homes to obtain unpaid debts from residents’ adult children.
One quarter of Americans will experience ‘severe need’ for long-term care services: report
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 02, 2021
About one fifth will require no services at all, a new analysis shows. But a sizable number will “experience the type of severe needs that most people dread,” the investigators say.
HHS updates Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements
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Danielle Brown
Oct 26, 2020
The federal government is no longer limiting providers’ use of Provider Relief Funds for covering lost revenue due to the coronavirus, according to an updated memo issued late last week.
Boxing helps those with Parkinson’s knock out symptoms
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 10, 2020
Participants in a non-contact boxing program reported improved non-motor symptoms and greater confidence in their ability to continue exercising.