“Should memory care residents be in private or semi-private rooms?” This is the question I often get asked by architects and owners new to memory Read More »
Action taken last week by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, which placed all six of its rated issuers in the nursing home sector on watch for Read More »
Hospitals that invest in pressure-redistribution foam mattresses in the emergency department could save money by reducing the frequency of pressure Read More »
Computers have been a godsend for me. As a quadriplegic, I can do some typing, but a normal keyboard is too large for me to reach all the keys. Read More »
Federal and state agents with the Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations and Texas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit last week arrested a Read More »
At the end of July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the “Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Read More »
St. Charles, Missouri, was the site of the 2011 annual convention for the Pioneer Network. This was the fourth Pioneer event I have attended; I had Read More »
Any automatic 2 percent cut to Medicare as a result of congressional debt negotiations will “disproportionately impact elderly residents and the Read More »
Almost 900,000 Medicare beneficiaries who hit the Part D prescription drug “donut hole” this year have already saved an average of $517, or a 50 Read More »
A group of scientists out of New Jersey say they have developed a blood test that diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease with unprecedented accuracy. The Read More »
Increased competition is a challenge for providers in all segments of the LTC industry. The growth in competition requires that providers communicate Read More »
Hubert H. Humphrey, the 38th vice president of our increasingly un-United States, believed some crazy things. One of them was that the moral test of Read More »
Older people taking new generation antidepressants are at greater risk of suffering from falls and fractures, among other serious conditions such as Read More »
The U.S. Senate by a vote of 74 to 26 passed a bill Tuesday raising the federal debt ceiling, narrowly averting a government default that would have Read More »
Florida officials applied to the federal government on Monday with an official request to transition the state’s Medicaid program to managed care Read More »
Over the last week or so the temperature each day has been in the 90s and the heat index over 100 degrees. When I was young, I barely noticed these Read More »
Several skilled nursing and senior living chains released Monday preliminary estimates of lost revenue in light of last Friday’s final rule (PDF) Read More »
