Nursing home transforms into Buckingham Palace for Queen’s jubilee
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 23, 2022
A nursing home in the United Kingdom transformed its facility into Buckingham Palace in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Garden-variety therapy: Operator uses partnership to build green-thumb program for residents
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 17, 2021
A New Jersey-based provider is partnering with a national organization that offers indoor gardening programs for seniors in long-term care, just in time for spring. Springpoint on Wednesday announced...
Ask the treatment expert: Is it necessary to provide compression therapy to heal a venous stasis ulcer?
By
Jeri Lundgren
Jan 05, 2020
Is it necessary to provide compression therapy to heal a venous stasis ulcer?
OIG: Improper payment gains up $2.3 billion for FY 2016
By
Emily Mongan
Dec 02, 2016
Federal health officials recovered more than $5.66 billion in improper or fraudulent payments in fiscal year 2016, according to a report published Thursday. The recovery cases included a nursing home cited...
SNFs to pay $3 million to settle first of a kind ambulance swapping case
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Dec 02, 2015
A Texas skilled nursing facility operator will pay $3 million to settle allegations that it received kickbacks from ambulance companies, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Workaholics could face stroke risks similar to smokers
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Aug 21, 2015
Workers who toil excessive overtime hours could be increasing their risk of stroke by as much as one-third, new research shows.
A good book’s unintended lesson and tears for a great friend
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 27, 2015
One of the best signs of a good book is its unplanned lessons. While its title might profess how to fix this or do better at that, a high-quality book also will lead the reader to enlightenment for reasons...
How one provider went out of its way to help those affected by the government shutdown
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 29, 2019
Seeing others hurt so badly by the just-ended (or at least temporarily on hold), government shutdown, it might be easy for some to say “not my problem.” But one busy, Illinois-based provider refused...
Skilled care sector could thrive if GOP, Dems split in November elections, chief lobbyist says
By
Marty Stempniak
Oct 10, 2018
SAN DIEGO — It’s likely the November election will end in a split, with Democrats taking the House and Republicans holding onto the Senate, and that outcome could prove ideal for the nursing home field.
Staying focused in long-term care
By
Allison True
Mar 13, 2015
Political correctness is a concept that has been around since the first activists in the University of Wisconsin Madison added it to our language and our thinking. Inevitably, it reached long-term care...