CEO answers hurricane-hit Puerto Rico nursing home’s call for help with plane full of supplies
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Oct 04, 2017
Last month an employee of a Puerto Rico nursing home appeared in an ABC News interview with a desperate request for anyone who was watching: Don’t let our residents die.
Demo projects need new safeguards, improvements, healthcare group says
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Feb 14, 2017
A coalition of healthcare groups is pushing lawmakers and the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services to consider strengthening the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation as they debate...
CMS needs to improve oversight of Medicare contractors’ error rate reduction plans, report says
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 21, 2014
Too many Medicare providers are receiving improper payments, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should clamp down by doing a better job overseeing its contractors’ error rate reduction...
Sky’s falling? No biggie
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John O'Connor
Nov 01, 2011
When I joined this magazine 21 years ago, one of my first assignments was to cover a state convention. It was a real eye-opener.
‘Truly a matter of life and death’: Final distributions of PRF funding ‘must not’ forget LTC...
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Danielle Brown
Jun 16, 2021
Any future plans to distribute the remaining dollars in the Provider Relief Fund must include long-term care pharmacies which have been “largely excluded” from the relief so far, a national industry...
National Senior Campuses names Beardsley first CEO
Oct 23, 2019
Bruce J. Beardsley has been named the first CEO of National Senior Campuses, the largest not-for-profit multi-site senior living organization in the country, according to the 2019 LeadingAge Ziegler 200...
New PointClickCare upgrades target cross-continuum care
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Amy Novotney
Nov 07, 2023
The fall conference season is often used by vendors to highlight recent upgrades that make platforms and technology tools in general more supportive across the care continuum.
Brookdale resolves lawsuit over SNF transfers, discharges for $3.25 million
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Danielle Brown
Mar 15, 2022
Brookdale Senior Living has agreed to pay $3.25 million to resolve allegations that 10 of its California skilled nursing facilities failed to properly notify and prepare residents for both transfers and...
CDC panel recommends COVID-19 boosters for long-term care residents
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Danielle Brown
Sep 24, 2021
Long-term care residents are one step closer to receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shots after an advisory panel affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved a key recommendation...
IPs brace for more visibility, hope for more resources too
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John Hall
Jun 01, 2021
Infection preventionists, strapped for time and tools during COVID, push for extra support post-pandemic.