McKnight’s Online Expo: ‘Virtual’ success is reality
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 04, 2016
Think back to when you were 10 years old. You still had a big future ahead of you, but you had already seen a lot, you were on a roll and, wow, were you full of energy!
The skilled care sector may be doomed. What else is new?
By
John O'Connor
Mar 19, 2018
If this field had a mantra, it would be: We’ll find a way, no matter what.
Beta testing for data elements of IMPACT Act underway; volunteers lacking
By
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.
Osteoporosis undertreated in older men with fracture, experts say
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 09, 2020
In the two years before their fracture, fewer than 6% of almost 9,900 men studied had been screened for bone mineral density. Yet two thirds of these men had musculoskeletal pain, according to new findings.
Active older adults had better COVID-19 protection than inactive people: report
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 15, 2024
Adults 45 and over who stayed active before the pandemic were 10% less likely to get COVID-19. Those who did get COVID-19 were 27% less likely to be hospitalized for it, a study published Tuesday in JAMA...
Unvaccinated residents had triple rate of COVID in Kentucky nursing home’s March outbreak: CDC
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 22, 2021
Vaccinated nursing home residents and staff members appeared to have a distinct advantage during a recent COVID-19 outbreak, agency investigators found.
Tentative agreement pulls strikers from 4 PA nursing homes, but they stay at 10 other locations
By
Joe Bush
Sep 09, 2022
Nursing home workers who had been Nursing home workers who had been striking at four Pennsylvania facilities since Sept. 2 are leaving the picket lines after their union reached a tentative agreement with...
Migrant girl who later died in U.S. custody had been sent to nursing homes by refugee agency
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2019
Two separate nursing homes had been tapped to care for a migrant girl whose 2018 death in U.S. custody was revealed just this week.
Six years after mandate, most of state’s nursing home residents had POLST forms
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Mar 14, 2022
By 2016, 81% of California’s long-stay residents and 68% of short-stay residents had physician orders for life-sustaining treatment recorded in the MDS.
Staff perceptions, limited resources thwart nursing home care for substance abusers
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2022
A federal push to have skilled nursing providers care for more patients with substance use and opioid use disorders faces major systemic hurdles, researchers reported this week.