Cultivating motivation in the rehab therapy setting comes down to pushing the right buttons at the right time — and knowing when to stop pushing.
Big data headaches
By
John Andrews
Apr 01, 2014
A tsunami of information has skilled nursing facilities searching for ways to shore up against the deluge that could wash over the long-term care industry
Pharma company Teva to pay $27 million over charges of kickbacks to promote dangerous antipsychotic
By
Tim Mullaney
Mar 12, 2014
Teva Pharmaceuticals and subsidiary IVAX LLC have agreed to a $27.6 million settlement over charges that they paid kickbacks to a psychiatrist for putting nursing home residents on the antipsychotic drug...
Shock ’em with action
By
Gary Tetz
Mar 01, 2014
On a scale of A to 17, with one being “Always” and red being “Parsnips,” how would you rate your experience with customer satisfaction surveys? I’m sure most of you use them,...
The road more taken
By
John O'Connor
Mar 01, 2014
Conventional wisdom can be a reassuring thing. But sometimes it can be flat-out wrong. Consider 94-year-old Olga Kotelko.
Feature: All together now
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2014
Rehabilitation professionals still are navigating challenges of providing group, concurrent therapies in a world that has come to value individual therapy more
Feature: Prescribing Unity
By
John Andrews
Feb 01, 2014
Assembling a well-coordinated medication management team requires solid communication, collaboration and convergence of clinical professionals
Genesis nursing home illegally reneged on job offer to deaf applicant, government charges
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 23, 2014
Managers at a New Jersey nursing home owned by Genesis HealthCare withdrew a job offer to a qualified applicant because he is deaf, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charging in a lawsuit...
Nursing home to pay $370,000 to settle charges it asked for family history information in the hiring...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 15, 2014
A nursing home that now is out of business has agreed to a $370,000 settlement in an employment discrimination suit, which included charges that it asked for genetic information as part of the hiring process,...
Proper protection
By
John Andrews
Dec 01, 2013
Long-term care operators need to ensure that their lifeblood — data —is adequately guarded in the case of natural disaster, power outage or cyber attack