OnPointe CEO: Pandemic should be catalyst for payment changes, shedding ‘wrong strategy’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2021
Some look at the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and question how they can make their buildings safer. Eric Tanner, CEO of transitional and skilled care specialist OnPointe, sees the crisis as a launching point...
Federal watchdog stresses need for retroactive COVID-19 death and case data from nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 29, 2021
Federal health agencies are being pressured again to retroactively collect data on COVID-19 deaths and cases from nursing homes to improve the government’s response to the pandemic.
AG lambasts drastic undercounting of COVID nursing home deaths, infection control compliance
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 29, 2021
New York’s data on coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes may have been undercounted by as much as 50%, according to a state investigation that also took aim at provider compliance with infection...
GAO: Nursing homes unlikely to use point-of-care COVID tests in states that question accuracy
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 29, 2021
A disconnect between federal and state or local policies has a direct effect on POC antigen test use in these settings, according to a comprehensive report released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability...
PPE reuse has helped spread different germs during pandemic: drug-resistant bacteria, fungi
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 28, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced many long-term care facilities to resort to reusing single-use respirators, face masks, face shields and eye protection, and now new research suggests this desperate...
Another monoclonal antibody cocktail, this one manufactured by Regeneron, has been shown to prevent COVID-19 in a phase 3 clinical trial.
COVID-19 underscores PDPM advantages
By
Bent Philipson
Jan 27, 2021
The efficacy of the Patient-Driven Payment Model has never been clearer than now, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. PDPM enabled skilled nursing facilities to see a 9% increase in Medicare reimbursement...
Multiple states now redirecting unused COVID vaccines from nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 27, 2021
Coronavirus vaccines going unused at nursing homes in several states are now being redirected in an effort to put doses into the arms of more seniors and eligible workers in other settings.
Revised COVID-19 guidance from OSHA coming under executive order
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 27, 2021
New pandemic guidance on healthcare workplace safety could provide more clarity for providers and workers in long-term care, according to a leading expert.
Green Houses bring blue skies as smaller nursing homes show fewer COVID deaths, cases
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 27, 2021
Residents living in smaller nursing homes are less likely to contract or die from COVID-19 than those who live in larger facilities, according to study results published in JAMDA on Monday.