Next year could be a “luxury” year for the American Health Care Association’s interest on Capitol Hill if the group can maintain the successes it’s seen this year through the end...
A snapshot of successful dementia surveys
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Oct 06, 2015
I firmly believe the old saying that a picture’s worth a thousand words. But for every strong, visual message photograph conveys, there are dozens of more messages that it doesn’t, or can’t,...
AHCA pushes toward payment reform
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Oct 06, 2015
The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living will soon face their “most formidable challenge of all,” in delivering a proposal for payment reform to Congress,...
Many encores for ‘Musical Man’
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Oct 05, 2015
When Don Worke was 10 years old, he made a deal that would send him on a musical journey lasting almost 80 years.
Mid-Atlantic Health Care creates Gold-winning system
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Oct 02, 2015
Mid-Atlantic Health Care has earned the Gold Award in the Quality category of McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards for creating its own data system to improve the quality of care provided in...
Nursing home residents, state officials clash over wild pet duck
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Oct 02, 2015
Residents at a California senior living facility are facing off with state wildlife officials over a wild duck they’ve raised as a pet for the past two years.
State supreme court takes on arbitration agreements
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Oct 02, 2015
A family member must have an explicit right to waive a long-term care resident’s right to a jury trial when signing an arbitration agreement, otherwise it cannot be enforced, the Kentucky Supreme...
Rosewood Senior Living wins big for innovative integration
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Oct 01, 2015
Technology upgrades across ABHOW’s Rosewood Senior Living campus in Bakersfield, CA, helped make maintenance and transportation more efficient, plus boosted resident use of Internet applications.
HHS calls for therapy overbilling crackdown
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Oct 01, 2015
The Medicare payment system for skilled nursing facilities needs to be re-evaluated to weed out exploitative providers, a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...
Morning Pointe Alzheimer’s care garners Gold Award
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Sep 30, 2015
Morning Pointe Assisted Living, which operates 24 assisted living and memory care communities in the Southeastern U.S., met the demand for better Alzheimer’s care programs with the development of...