Creating ‘happier’ residents, staff with a low-cost dementia intervention
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 19, 2024
A proven, economical strategy can help frontline staff improve the nursing home experience for patients with dementia while also giving caretakers more rewarding interactions, says a researcher behind...
Mood of the Market Part 3: Amid unforgiving regulatory burden, some nursing home leaders buoyed by new...
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 11, 2024
The looming federal staffing mandate is already being viewed as a threat to the sector’s newfound, delicate appreciation for work-life balance.
From cruises to college degrees, Avante Group steams ahead with workplace culture investments
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 08, 2024
After centralizing in Florida and coming out of the pandemic, Avante Group has not only grown its own staff and completely eliminated agency workers; it has promoted a clinically oriented top executive...
Association chief disputes study finding that thousands of nursing homes didn’t have a medical director...
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Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 03, 2024
More than one-third of US nursing homes did not have a medical director onsite during the first quarter of 2023, according to new study findings, which were strongly rebuffed by the head of the Post-Acute...
Staffing and reporting tools address workforce, operational challenges
By
Foster Stubbs
Sep 03, 2024
In this webinar, “From chaos to calm: Streamlining operations to overcome labor challenges,” sponsored by Smartlinx, two industry experts detailed how taking a strategic, data-driven approach to staffing...
Staffing agencies to pay $700K for overcharging nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2024
Two national staffing agencies will pay more than $700,000 combined to resolve allegations that they billed long-term care facilities too much for nursing services in one of the two states with rate caps.
Daunted by reimbursement challenges, inpatient hospice plans to become skilled nursing facility
By
John Roszkowski
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 20, 2024
Due to financial pressures and changes in the long-term care industry, one healthcare provider is planning to close its hospice center — and turn it into a new skilled nursing facility.
New studies estimate long COVID rates
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 13, 2024
About 34% of postmenopausal women with COVID-19 had symptoms that lasted at least eight weeks, according to the first of two recent surveys. A second survey showed that 84% and 61% of all infected patients...
‘Needs Rounds’ improve palliative care, reduce hospitalizations in nursing homes: research
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Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 12, 2024
Regular, focused meetings to discuss the specific needs of nursing home residents requiring palliative care can reduce repeated hospitalizations and improve the quality of a person’s final days, according...
NADONA finds new top exec from within after unexpected death of long-time leader
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James M. Berklan
Aug 11, 2024
Cindy Fronning, the group’s director of education, has assumed the top spot at the National Association of Directors of Nursing in Long Term Care.
