‘Critical Access’ nursing homes could be game changer: Focused Post-Acute Partners’ Mark McKenzie
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 26, 2022
While struggling rural nursing homes must innovate to survive, their efforts would be bolstered by a federal program similar to one that provides additional funding and staff resources to challenged rural...
Nexion Health outlines efforts to keep staff above water with internal float pool
By
Joe Bush
Sep 23, 2022
Riner is among the many administrators working to move away from using agency workers to help with staffing shortages, in her case, through the development of an in-house staffing pool, or float pool.
The truth(s) about the big nursing home COVID hearing
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 22, 2022
There were a lot of things at this retrospective coronavirus carnival. But what might have been most remarkable was not represented at this nursing home-centric hearing. Nursing homes.
Solutions and hope may be offered at today’s House nursing home COVID-19 hearing
By
Joe Bush
Sep 21, 2022
Nursing home advocates and researchers hope today’s House subcommittee hearing will spur legislative action to help the sector recover from the ravages it’s still feeling from COVID-19.
Low-wage healthcare employees lost work at higher rate than physicians during pandemic
By
Joe Bush
Sep 21, 2022
In a comparison of healthcare worker employment in pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, many more non-physicians became unemployed than physicians, according to a JAMA research letter published Sept. 19.
OIG partly blames CMS for Life Care Centers deficiencies
By
Joe Bush
Sep 20, 2022
A federal watchdog said a lack of communication by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may have caused infection control deficiency citations at Life Care Centers of America nursing homes between...
Same-day surgery for diabetic foot ulcers speeds healing, cuts amputation risk: study
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2022
Physician researchers urge other diabetic multidisciplinary foot teams to explore what they say is a practical and financially feasible treatment option.
Common medical devices ripe for cyberattack, LTC prone to security breaches
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2022
The healthcare sector is increasingly at risk of cyber crime due to unpatched medical devices with outdated software or inadequate security features, experts say.
CDC: In-hospital mortality decreased during omicron; most deaths among seniors
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2022
There was a 15% drop in in-hospital mortality rates between the delta and omicron periods of the pandemic. Most of the deaths that did occur were in adults aged 65 years and older.
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Sept. 20
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 20, 2022
Recent closures of adult day centers tied to cognitive decline in some seniors … Unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotics may harm pneumonia patients … Stopping aspirin while on blood thinner cuts risk...