Nursing home closed by state over deadly COVID outbreak settles multi-family lawsuit
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2024
An Oregon nursing home closed by the state after an early 2020 COVID-19 outbreak has reportedly agreed to settle a lawsuit with the families of 13 residents who died.
Get the latest on COVID-19 during Thursday’s McKnight’s Online Forum
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 22, 2020
Start tomorrow off with critical insights into three vital areas of the battle against COVID-19 during McKnight’s first coronavirus-related Online Forum. Attendees will learn skilled nursing- and senior...
WELL Building launches health-safety ratings in COVID’s wake
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 17, 2020
The world’s leading certification body for healthy buildings has instituted a health-safety rating system that will allow a range of building and facility types to demonstrate their operational policies,...
Healthcare worker, OSHA vaccine mandates headed to Supreme Court
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 19, 2021
The immediate fate of a federal vaccine mandate covering most U.S. healthcare workers was in the hands of the Supreme Court this weekend, as the Biden administration sought to reverse an injunction preventing...
On-site communication tools provide family check-ins
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2020
New and discounted communication tools that help providers, residents and families connect despite COVID-19 restrictions continue to emerge. For example, software maker SafeKeeping has begun providing...
Opponents of the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers are pursuing two fresh pathways to defeat it. Both challenges cite the pandemic’s current, less critical stage...
Immigration reemerges as workforce solution in scattershot Senate hearing
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 17, 2023
An overwhelmed healthcare workforce, the implications of ongoing shortages and fears about a stressed pipeline took center stage during a Senate hearing Thursday.
Sept. 21 webinar offers five proven retention strategies for employees’ first 100 days
Aug 18, 2021
Join the McKnight’s brands as we discuss five techniques proven to reduce employee turnover in the skilled nursing, senior living and home care settings.
CMS going public with facility turnover, weekend staffing data
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday announced that it will begin posting nursing home staff turnover rates and weekend staffing levels on the consumer-facing Medicare Care Compare...
Long-term care’s zeal for foreign nurses a ‘Band-Aid’ solution: researchers
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Kimberly Marselas
May 05, 2023
In a new commentary, researchers likened long-term care organizations’ quest to entice immigrant nurses to using a Band-Aid to stop a hemorrhaging workforce wound.