Long-term care provider fined record $27K for worker’s COVID-19 death
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 27, 2021
The death of a frontline worker led the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry to levy a $27,100 fine for workplace safety violations on the man’s former long-term care employer.
Getting off a health crisis roller coaster
By
Lyn Lais, RN
Jan 23, 2015
You’ve seen it happen more times than you can count: an older adult checks into the hospital with a serious illness, recovers at a rehabilitation center and is then discharged. A month later, that...
What to do with unused meds
By
Liza Berger
Mar 10, 2010
There is more and more talk in state legislatures of finding new ways to dispose of unused medications at healthcare facilities. This is an idea whose time has come.
Nursing homes demonstrate health information exchange, Minnesota style
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 01, 2014
It pains me to say it, but Minnesota’s done it again.