Hospice accused of treating ineligible patients agrees to $1.2M False Claims settlement
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2018
A for-profit hospice company and its owner agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that the company fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid for hospice services.
Rouxbe offers free food safety course
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2020
Rouxbe, an online culinary training program, is offering a free course on food safety to any foodservice organization. Proper food safety can help prevent illness and the transmission of disease, including...
OIG: Background checks weed out up to 8% of LTC job applicants
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Kimberly Marselas
May 30, 2019
A review of a 10-state program that supports background check capabilities found that they eliminate up to 8% of long-term care job applications.
iDocsWeb offers free telehealth access
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 21, 2020
Telemedicine platform developer iDocsWeb is offering its service free for one month to U.S. skilled nursing and other long-term care operators during the ongoing public health emergency. Access to the...
Telepsychiatry helps reduce antipsychotics, others’ use
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 14, 2019
An Encounter Telehealth analysis of 40 rural skilled nursing facility partners in Iowa revealed a 6.7% reduction in the use of antipsychotics following 14 months of psychiatric telehealth services. Some...
Wednesday’s Workforce Development Forum offers timely skilled nursing hiring and retention strategies
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2023
Want easy access to some of the nation’s best nursing and retention experts? Join us Wednesday, Feb. 15 for the year’s first McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum.
Memphis rehabilitation center to pay $500K for providing ‘worthless’ services
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 06, 2018
Spring Gate Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Memphis will pay $500,000 to federal authorities and Tennessee to resolve false claims allegations.
State: Nursing home’s neglect led to resident’s bed-rail suffocation
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 17, 2018
Minnesota officials have blamed the operators of a 94-bed nursing home for the death of a resident who suffocated when her head was trapped between a mattress and a grab bar.
Gone fishin’ in a Utah parking lot
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2018
John Gibson had never been fishing, and at his age, getting to a river or out on the boat wouldn’t be an easy outing.
A range of for-profit and nonprofit healthcare organizations are responding to elderly people’s increased risk of developing COVID-19 with new services and adapted products.