Ohio-based ProMedica, operator of 162 skilled nursing facilities, has named Angela Brandt president of ProMedica Senior Care. She will be responsible for driving senior care excellence, strategically investing...
McKnights.com named best website, earns 51st McKnight’s LTC News APEX award
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 12, 2021
The McKnight’s Long-Term Care News website, mcknights.com, has been recognized with the highest level of honor in the 33rd annual APEX Awards journalism competition.
Is it fair to give nursing homes the Martin Shkreli treatment?
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2021
Nursing homes found themselves lumped in with Pharma Bro-turned-felon Martin Shkreli in this year’s Top 10 ranking of “the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare.”
It’s a starry night at 3rd Annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards ceremony
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 01, 2021
The McKnight’s brands honored dozens of dedicated caregivers, industry trailblazers and a veritable Who’s Who list of influential veterans as part of their third annual Women of Distinction event.
Hank Watson: Striking into new territory
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 01, 2021
Hank Watson, MBA, Chief Development Officer, American Health Partners
Lining up for the great hand-hygiene escape
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2021
When’s the last time your employees lined up during lunch breaks for voluntary training? Proving again that healthcare workers are among the world’s most resourceful, a team from the Central Texas...
Nursing homes down 200K frontline workers, with more COVID cases on the way
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 29, 2021
The U.S. is facing a certified nurse aide shortage of about 200,000, with the situation made more dire by a surging number of unvaccinated aides being forced to quarantine with cases of a new COVID-19...
To save itself, might Medicare deny coverage of controversial new Alzheimer’s drug?
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 28, 2021
The true price to administer aducanumab — a controversial new Alzheimer’s treatment — may actually be closer to $100,000 annually than other, lower estimates and is just one reason the Centers for...
Buoyed by growth, massive hospital system drives collaboration — and takes the lead on payments
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 21, 2021
When Steward Health Care announced last week that it was buying five hospitals from Tenet Healthcare Corp. for $1.1 billion, what didn’t get much media attention was the organization’s history of coordinating...
When CMS gives you a gift, pay it forward
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 16, 2021
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services presented some 2,500 nursing homes with quite a gift: an additional seven days to avoid a fine for missing a new vaccination reporting deadline....