Study: Sicker type 2 diabetics using less medications, but some still struggle with poor glucose control
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 15, 2024
Older adults with type 2 diabetes and multiple chronic conditions are using less high-risk medications to manage their diabetes, but 1 in 6 of them still didn’t have solid glycemic control, according...
Meet Kelly Pero-Petty, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 11, 2024
Kelly Pero-Petty, vice president of business development at Ignite Medical Resorts in Park Ridge, IL, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Suspected sepsis cases linked to overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics, study finds
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 05, 2024
About half of suspected sepsis cases account for broad-spectrum antibiotic use — but a lot of these cases don’t require the medications at all, according to a study published June 27 in JAMA Network...
Meet Shelly Koch, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 10, 2024
Shelly Koch, executive director, operations-home-based services at Evangelical Lutheran good Samaritan Society in Sioux Falls, SD, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction...
How the feds can pay for the nursing home staffing mandate
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James M. Berklan
Jul 11, 2024
Long-term care providers are being indoctrinated yet again to a harsh life lesson that goes something like this: He with the biggest stick usually wins. Sub in “deepest pockets” for “biggest stick”...
Five percent: good enough for them, but not for you
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 10, 2024
It’s a question that begs to be asked: Just how much must skilled nursing providers raise pay to appease lawmakers demanding higher wages?
CDC: Everyone over 6 months needs updated COVID vaccine
Jun 28, 2024
As a summer wave of COVID infections rolls across the country, US health officials have recommended that all Americans over the age of 6 months get one of the updated COVID vaccines when they become available...
States could cut healthcare costs by delivering patient-tailored meals, study suggests
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 01, 2024
Healthcare costs could go down in nearly every state with programs that deliver meals customized for people with conditions such as heart disease or diabetes, a new study finds. The meals could prevent...
Dietitians urge CMS to keep extra pay for malnourished nursing home residents
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 11, 2024
Dietitians who work with nursing home patients are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to remove critical coding that helps identify seniors either with malnutrition or at risk for...
Also in the News for Thursday, June 27, 2024
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
Major hospital group keeps pressure on Congress over nursing home staffing rule … Consumer Voice publishes guide on nursing home retaliation … Fitch predicts ‘deteriorating’ outlook for CCRCs will...