Report: 28 percent of healthy folks over 60 have heart valve disease
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 26, 2024
About 28% of relatively healthy people over the age of 60 have heart valve disease, which could lead to more serious cardiovascular complications. This is according to a report published Wednesday in European...
Time spent sedentary in cardiac rehab can hurt outcomes, activity capability
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 19, 2024
A new study found that how much time people in cardiac rehabilitation spent sitting or lying down could negatively affect their outcomes and ability to complete activities of daily living. Findings published...
Providers, I-SNPs primed and ‘pleading’ for greater role in value-based care
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 21, 2024
The unrelenting push toward value-based care should compel skilled nursing providers to grab the reins, even after years of regulators failing to invite them more fully into the process.
Pretending to care about caregivers
By
Brendan Williams
Jun 26, 2024
As part of his undeclared candidacy to be California’s next governor, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra paid a pandering visit in April to the Los Angeles headquarters of an SEIU...
Government inaction is neglect
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jun 25, 2024
Some people look forward to spring for the warmer weather and daffodils. I love spring because the Cleveland International Film Festival comes around. I saw a movie this year called First We Bombed New...
Once at the edge of closure, nation’s second-largest nursing home earns Medicare recertification
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 21, 2024
After fighting for years to improve its care quality and avoid closure, one of the nation’s largest nursing homes has achieved Medicare recertification — clearing a vital final hurdle for its future...
Report: Type 1 diabetes prevalence in older adults nearly triples since 1990s
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Kristen Fischer
Jun 17, 2024
The prevalence of people over 65 living with type 1 diabetes skyrocketed in the past 30 years, a new study finds.
Alzheimer’s history on maternal side linked to higher disease risk, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 17, 2024
People with a history of Alzheimer’s disease on their mother’s side or both parents’ sides of the family had higher levels of amyloid plaques in their brains compared to those with fathers who...
Black is the new beer goggles
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 18, 2024
Let’s be honest. While many of us are going through weight loss journeys, don’t we sometimes ask the question, “Isn’t there something that will just make me look thinner?” I mean,...
Analytics firm takes on EHR giant PointClickCare in ‘life and death’ information sharing lawsuit
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 12, 2024
Real Time Medical Systems has asked a federal judge to force the nation’s largest post-acute EHR provider to keep its clients’ data accessible, saying information blocking “will cause needless patient...