It’s the final (final!) day to apply for McKnight’s Tech Awards
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 30, 2019
If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to brag about your organization’s ability to harness technology to improve resident care or operations, wait no longer. No, really, wait no longer. Today...
The RAC is back, increasing scrutiny in a complex nursing home audit environment
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2024
Audits of skilled nursing providers are likely to increase this year, with a growing number of federal and state recovery audits adding to specialized compliance reviews announced last year.
Rough journey and smooth brushstroke inspire nursing home portrait sessions
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2019
During her junior year of high school, America Ordonez stepped into Oak Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for the first time, armed with a camera, a sketch pad and a box full of paints. Almost a year...
Therapy caps back on as Congress delays action
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 04, 2018
Therapy caps are back on for now, even though Congress may still be prepared to eliminate them in 2018.
Providers: Staffing rule a CMS ‘fairy tale’ that will ‘exacerbate’ nursing home access issue
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 23, 2024
Despite minor concessions in a staffing mandate issued Monday, many nursing home providers were shell-shocked by what they saw as federal regulators’ intractable stance on minimums at a time when nearly...
Sentrics offers facility hotline for COVID-19 communications
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Kimberly Marselas
May 06, 2020
Sentrics’ Entertain360 division, which offers TV, phone and Internet services, can now provide a COVID-19 hotline to any senior living community that needs it — free of charge — during the pandemic....
Here comes the bride’s mother, all dressed in silver
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2019
Months ago, Jane Hartstein, a resident of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on Long Island, started trying to wean herself off a ventilator in the hopes of making it to her daughter’s...
Feds suspect misuse of Nuedexta to calm nursing home dementia residents
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2018
Nuedexta is the only drug approved to treat uncontrolled laughing and crying due to pseudobulbar affect.
States need to step up with nurse aide waiver clearer, providers say
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 31, 2022
The formal extension of a waiver program that relaxes certification requirements for some nurse aides was widely embraced by providers a day after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced...
PACS reveals strategy behind its move to go public
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 15, 2024
PACS Group this week filed to become a publicly traded company, a move the giant long-term care company is promising will allow it to add to its explosive growth in coming years.