Facility fined $16,000 after reviving resident with DNR
By
Tim Mullaney
Jul 01, 2014
Authorities have fined a Florida nursing home $16,000 for reviving a resident who had a do-not-resuscitate order.
Strong signals that nursing homes will win case against the contraception mandate, lawyers say
By
Tim Mullaney
Jul 02, 2014
A Supreme Court ruling handed down earlier this week bolstered a legal case being pursued by The Little Sisters of the Poor, according to attorneys for the nonprofit nursing home operator. However, other...
Long-term care tech summit produces calls for better, silo-busting assessment tools
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 24, 2014
More progress is needed toward standardizing beneficiary assessments across care settings, an analyst with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told a gathering of long-term care health information...
102-year-old nursing home resident most likely won’t be tried for murder, facility faces allegation
By
Stephanie H. Kim
Jun 24, 2014
A 102-year-old woman faces a second-degree murder charge after allegedly killing her 100-year-old roommate in a Massachusetts nursing home about five years ago.
Details on special lights to improve dementia care: A fish tale
By
Tim Mullaney
Jun 17, 2014
In the last week, quite a few McKnight’s readers have asked me for more details about special lights that improve dementia symptoms, prompting me to dig deeper into this story. I’ve learned...
The most important leadership decision in a Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement plan is not what, but who, to include, a former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official said Tuesday.
A federal judge in Florida has determined that a legal case involving more than $1 billion in wrongful death and other judgments against a bankrupt nursing home company can proceed.
Nursing homes can assess nutritional status by measuring residents’ calves rather than body mass...
By
Tim Mullaney
May 27, 2014
Nursing home caregivers can get a good idea of residents’ nutritional status by measuring their calves rather than calculating their body mass index with height and weight, according to recently...
Nursing homes trail hospitals in quality improvement, AHRQ report shows
By
Tim Mullaney
May 19, 2014
About 60% of nursing home quality measures have been showing significant year-to-year improvement, but hospitals have been improving more quickly, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Federal law does not allow former nursing home resident to sue over involuntary discharge, court rules
By
Tim Mullaney
May 14, 2014
A woman involuntarily discharged from an Illinois nursing home does not have the right to file suit under the federal law regulating Medicaid providers, a federal court ruled Monday.