KLAS rates top RTLS hardware vendors for first time in five years
Jul 12, 2016
CenTrak announced last week it had received the highest Overall Performance Score of all RTLS vendors and was named the top-rated RTLS hardware vendor by KLAS in its recent performance report, “Real-Time...
Polls offer differing public views of drug benefit
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Haymarket Media
Dec 22, 2006
The voting public seems to be at odds with seniors’ views of prescription drug benefit reform, studies indicate. While two studies show the general public’s dissatisfaction with an anticipated...
CMS too burdened and focused on cost to be the epicenter of long-term care reform, experts say
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Tim Mullaney
Nov 21, 2013
Most long-term care reforms rely on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for implementation, but the overburdened agency cannot manage all the needed changes in this area, according to a panel...
Future of healthcare reform still remains cloudy for Democrats
Mar 15, 2010
After narrowly passing a healthcare stopgap bill that included a therapy caps extension package, Democrats in Congress are finding it difficult to bring their major reform proposal across the finish line,...
CDC webinar addresses best practices with injections
Feb 15, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will address safe injection practices for nurses at a free webinar on Thursday, Feb. 22. The hourlong event will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern.
St. Rita’s owners stayed to help residents during Katrina, witnesses say
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Haymarket Media
Nov 30, 2005
The owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish did not abandon the residents during Hurricane Katrina as was originally believed, according to new details that have emerged about the...
Next stage of HIPAA audits will move quickly and result in enforcement actions against providers, official...
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Tim Mullaney
Sep 26, 2014
Impending audits could lead to penalties for healthcare providers not complying with health information privacy laws, an official stated Wednesday.
Citizens group sues California over nursing home ‘patient dumping’
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Nov 11, 2015
A California citizens group has filed a lawsuit against the state over its alleged failure to combat “patient dumping,” in which nursing homes elbow out Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid...
ACHCA prepping for Fall Forum
Oct 27, 2017
Long-term care administrators will be diving into issues, receiving quality education and networking as much as they care to at the American College of Health Care Administrators’ Fall Forum at the...
CMS: Quality is improving
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Elizabeth Newman
Apr 06, 2015
A comprehensive review of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ quality measurement efforts since 2006 paints a mostly positive picture of quality measurements in nursing homes.