Funding available for nursing home employee background check systems
Jun 11, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Thursday began accepting grant applications from states to establish systems for background checks for potential long-term care employees.
Government shutdown ends, but Howard Dean tells long-term care providers to expect continued gridlock
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 17, 2013
A deal originating in the Senate has restored federal government funding and raised the nation’s debt ceiling, ending a 16-day government shutdown that threatened senior services programs and nursing...
Use of electronic health records by post-acute providers improves care transitions, experts say
By
McKnight's Staff
Jul 05, 2012
Long-term and post-acute care providers aren’t eligible for federal meaningful use incentives for electronic health records, but failing to pursue EHRs would be unwise, experts stress.
CMS issues first round of grants for nursing home background checks
Oct 07, 2010
Six states are set to share in $14 million in grants for creating comprehensive, streamlined background check systems for long-term care employees.
Nursing home residents appreciate caring staff, but workers could do a better job honoring resident wishes,...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 10, 2014
Caring staff members who form close relationships with residents are a strength of long-term care facilities, but workers could more consistently honor residents’ choices and privacy, according to...
Providers to learn: never enough friends in play
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2013
Sometimes long-term care providers struggle to find meaning in the signs that are strewn in their path. Whether it’s legalese, regulatory gobbledy-gook or some form of bureaucracy, uncertain messages...
Staffing relief ahead? House members launch new LTC caucus amid reform push
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 08, 2022
A new congressional caucus will focus on concerns specific to the long-term care sector, lawmakers and provider representatives announced at a briefing here Tuesday.
Hospitalization for Medicare patients often leads to nursing home, study finds
Oct 05, 2011
Medicare beneficiaries who are hospitalized for acute-care treatment, including a stroke or hip fracture, are at an “extremely high risk” for needing long-term care in a nursing home, a new...
Long-term care to go Ivy League for new research
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 01, 2014
It appears that the nation’s largest association of nursing home operators has decided to buy itself a whole lot of credibility. I mean that only in a good way.
Solutions and hope may be offered at today’s House nursing home COVID-19 hearing
By
Joe Bush
Sep 21, 2022
Nursing home advocates and researchers hope today’s House subcommittee hearing will spur legislative action to help the sector recover from the ravages it’s still feeling from COVID-19.