The Oct. 20 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards and Summit will celebrate outstanding innovation by skilled nursing, senior living and home care operators — and provide insights on how to...
Essity expands its Tork PeakServe production line
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 18, 2020
Hygiene company Essity recently expanded its manufacturing capacity for Tork PeakServe Continuous Hand Towels, which ensure staff or guests only touch the towel they use in shared restrooms. Paper hand...
Poor seniors less likely to survive nursing home after ICU stay
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Kimberly Marselas
May 25, 2018
Medicaid beneficiaries who receive ICU care while hospitalized are more likely to die in the year after discharge than their peers on private insurance — and the disparity is worst among those with a...
OIG: Background checks weed out up to 8% of LTC job applicants
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Kimberly Marselas
May 30, 2019
A review of a 10-state program that supports background check capabilities found that they eliminate up to 8% of long-term care job applications.
With mandates and more, is an LTC exodus still in store?
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 01, 2021
Operators are clamoring for more workers and policies that will help keep the doors open.
Link-age offers Medline customers group purchasing power
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 07, 2020
Medline has formed a new group-purchasing partnership with Link-age Solutions, an organization whose members serve all sectors of post-acute care, including skilled nursing, assisted living and memory...
Beta testing for data elements of IMPACT Act underway; volunteers lacking
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 13, 2017
Officials acknowledged Tuesday that they had recruited only 172 providers, including 67 skilled nursing facilities — fewer than they had desired — for beta testing of data elements for the IMPACT Act.
Netsmart acquires consulting firm QIRT
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2020
Electronic health record provider Netsmart has acquired post-acute healthcare consulting firm Quality In Real Time to become the largest service provider in the post-acute community.
A full day of inspiration and tech solutions await Wednesday at the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 18, 2021
The first McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards and Summit is set to celebrate outstanding innovation by skilled nursing, senior living and home care providers on Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Let’s put a new spin on this tired ol’ nursing home staffing story
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2022
More money, more benefits, more flexibility. We need to know more of the nursing home staffing story.