FDA: Evusheld may be less effective against latest COVID variants
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 05, 2022
Evusheld, a preventive COVID-19 antibody for high-risk patients, may lose efficacy in the face of newly emerging variants, the FDA has informed clinicians.
The critical mentoring conversation you didn’t know was needed
By
Cara Silletto
Oct 04, 2022
We’ve become much more flexible as employers in the past decade because the employment market has shifted from giving employers an advantage.
LTC lobbyists lining up against special kind of pay cut
By
Joe Bush
Oct 04, 2022
Cynthia Morton is on the verge of a crazy few months to finish 2022. The executive vice president of the National Association for Long Term Care is about to help kick off the 33rd NASL National meeting...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Oct. 4
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 04, 2022
McKnight’s announces new Pinnacle Awards program to recognize industry veterans … Supreme Court turns away challenge to U.S. vaccine rule for health workers … Instacart’s new initiative aims to...
Florida providers enact robust emergency plans as Hurricane Ian strikes
By
Joe Bush
Sep 30, 2022
More than 40 Florida nursing homes were evacuated in Hurricane Ian’s wake, but there were no known resident deaths Thursday as the state mobilized emergency resources to prevent a major catastrophe in...
Making progress and readers who irk us
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 29, 2022
Long-term care has huge needs and technology can be the tool to satisfy its oversized demands. This gives us hope.
‘Understaffing’ alleged in nursing home class action suit doubling as notice to industry
By
Joe Bush
Sep 29, 2022
A class action lawsuit filed Monday is seeking a court order to stop regional provider Alden Management Services from what plaintiffs call “an ongoing practice of profiting from systematically and knowingly...
Significant Kansas closures reflect broader US nursing home staffing problems
By
Joe Bush
Sep 29, 2022
Recent closings and downsizings of Kansas nursing homes represent a microcosm of major troubles facing nursing homes nationwide.
Another survey; another big, bad, sad number
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2022
I spent nearly a month this summer examining your reflections on working in nursing homes. I read through nurse leaders’ comments about dissatisfaction with pay, the decreasing meaning in their jobs...
With new CDC guidance, providers duck ‘up-to-date’ vaccination concerns
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2022
While masking and screening of nursing home workers and visitors may no longer be required in areas with lower COVID-19 transmission rates, vaccination and testing efforts will be crucial if providers...