Congress fights over protections for frontline healthcare workers, employers
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 15, 2020
The next coronavirus relief bill is expected to include additional protections for frontline workers or protect employers from pandemic-related lawsuits — but to what degree is anybody’s guess right...
Quantifying TLC
By
Liza Berger
Jul 15, 2020
If nothing else, the COVID-19 has made us deeply ponder: Just how important is human interaction to our health?
CMS to deliver ‘point-of-care’ COVID-19 test kits to all nursing homes
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 14, 2020
Thousands of nursing homes across the country will be given “point of care” COVID-19 tests by the administration starting next week, officials announced Tuesday.
A new appreciation for those who provide direct care
By
Kristy Wikum
Jul 14, 2020
In my 30+-plus years in the world of therapy, I have never seen a year like this. In October, we were hit with the change in reimbursement through the Medicare system called the Patient Driven Payment...
‘Physicians need to think of COVID-19 as a multisystem disease’
By
Alicia Lasek
Jul 14, 2020
A review of COVID-19’s effects on human organs shows that a substantial proportion of patients suffer kidney, heart, and brain damage.
Experts make case for allowing more family-member visits in nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 14, 2020
Long-term care facilities should reconsider their restrictive visitation policies aimed at ensuring the well-being of residents during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, according to several experts.
Hundreds of nursing home workers plan walkout in nationwide protest
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 14, 2020
Hundreds of nursing home workers in Michigan are joining what they call a nationwide walkout to protest systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.
Expect technology to take on new roles in long-term/post-acute care following COVID-19
By
Jenny Lee
Jul 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything. Practices, activities and rituals we once relied on — from handshakes and luncheon meetings to crowded conference rooms and business travel — are now things...
Operators worried it might be 18 months before skilled nursing occupancy recovers
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 13, 2020
Skilled nursing operators seeing steep drops in occupancy since the start of the pandemic aren’t expecting those numbers to rebound any time soon, according to one expert.
Long-term care facilities don’t have enough access to testing in order to meet the federal government’s weekly COVID-19 testing recommendations, according to a new report released by Democrats with...