Jaclyn Gardner, director, operations management at LCS in Des Moines, IA, is a Veteran VIP honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Meet Addison Wilczak, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 15, 2024
Addison Wilczak, vice president of human resources at Ignite Medical Resorts in Park Ridge, IL, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Trump shooter worked at nursing home
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James M. Berklan
Jul 14, 2024
The 20-year-old identified as the shooter who nearly killed former President Donald Trump Saturday evening was a dietary aide at a Pittsburgh-area nursing and rehab facility, authorities said Sunday.
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...
Meet Melinda Monasterski, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 11, 2024
Melinda Monasterski, market president at Genesis Healthcare in Exton, PA, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Always running, but never on empty
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jul 09, 2024
Steve LaForte has learned an important lesson: One cannot competitively meditate.
CMS, Ohio governor approve funding increase for transition to private nursing home rooms
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 05, 2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave its approval for a state program increasing Medicaid reimbursements for nursing home providers that offer...
Meet Jessie Bosshard, 2024 Rising Star honoree
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 03, 2024
Jessie Bosshard, executive director at Given Home First (Givens Estates) in Asheville, NC, is a Rising Star honoree in the 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program.
Hundreds of strangers attend, provide services at funeral of veteran abandoned at nursing home
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Eliza Mattson
Jul 03, 2024
When nursing homes find themselves with a deceased resident whom family and friends do not lay claim to, there can still be a heartwarming outcome.
Reconsider ‘extreme’ expansion of civil monetary penalties: LTC coalition to CMS
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 02, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw a planned civil monetary penalty expansion, a coalition of leading long-term care organizations argues in a new joint letter to the agency’s...