Partnership pledges to trim rehospitalizations by 25%
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 07, 2024
Circadia Health has teamed up with more than 80 skilled nursing facilities operated by Ciena Healthcare to reduce preventable hospitalizations through remote patient monitoring.
How to … use AI to manage patient medications
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
From accelerating the introduction of important new medicines and improving ordering and inventory processes, to helping older adults better manage multiple prescriptions, artificial intelligence’s reach...
Victim blaming at its finest, unfortunately
By
John O'Connor
Jun 07, 2024
The nation’s leading spokesman for the US nursing home sector recently made an interesting observation about what might be called the current plight of many frontline workers in long-term care.
The saddle in the garage
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 07, 2024
For decades after his last ride, it rested on a sawhorse in a darkened corner of my father’s garage — his favorite Western saddle.
Wound care steps into the digital age with confidence
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
Artificial intelligence tools are dramatically cutting the time needed to diagnose, stage and treat complex wounds in the elderly.
SNFs increasingly embrace the value IPs bring to care
By
John Hall
Jun 07, 2024
Regulations requiring more attention on infection prevention and an expanded role for nursing home infection preventionists were fortuitous, coming as they did just ahead of the COVID pandemic.
Winslow Campus of Care CEO makes it a family affair
By
John Hall
Jun 05, 2024
For Cathy Williams, work in long-term care has never been just an occupation. It’s been a lifelong endeavor.
Push or pause staff mandate?
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 12, 2024
Lawmakers continued to spar over officials’ plans to finalize a first-ever nursing home staffing mandate as hearings poked through every layer of President Biden’s latest budget proposal.
Hearings put mandate designers on hotseat
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 12, 2024
Federal lawmakers grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra two weeks in a row at hearings in March over regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on nursing homes.
Ask the care expert… about use and care of lifts
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Apr 12, 2024
How can we best use and clean slings for our facility’s lifts?