Cash- and staff-strapped facilities struggle to keep up with regulations and stay ahead of regulators when it comes to laundry and housekeeping operations
State News
Apr 01, 2014
PENNSYLVANIA – The state’s nursing home operators say they are approaching fiscal disaster as facilities look at razor-thin margins half the national average.
Machine learning
By
John Hall
Aug 09, 2018
A fresh era of laundry equipment offers intuitive controls and other innovations
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
A new age for long-term care pharmacies
By
Jason Spears
Oct 04, 2010
“Seven-day-or-less” dispensing requirements have resulted in new long-term care medication distribution models.
Pressure ulcer treatments should be re-evaluated, expert says
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 25, 2013
Nursing home staff should adopt evidence-based approaches to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, and significantly more research is needed, a top expert said Saturday.
New site has care data: LTCfocUS.org is a care resource for nursing homes
Jan 01, 2010
The current healthcare reform debate has largely ignored nursing home care. This is due, in part, to a lack of data about how and why that care is given.
New Web site focuses on long-term care data
By
Denise Tyler
Dec 02, 2009
Information about the health and status of nursing home residents, facility characteristics and states’ long-term care policies is available on a new Web site from Brown University.
State News: Hearing set after NLRB files complaint against eldercare company
May 02, 2011
CONNECTICUT – A nursing home operator continues to battle a complaint that the National Labor Relations Board filed regarding the alleged wrongful dismissal of 36 employees at three long-term care...
Music to their ears
By
Holly Petrovich
Aug 05, 2015
The renovation and expansion of a cramped facility brings residents more privacy and service options, and the operator a healthy cash flow