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I Advance Senior Care is part of the Institute for the Advancement of Senior Care and published by Plain-English Health Care.
Reactions to Employee Free Choice Act
What are your thoughts about the Employee Free Choice Act and its union card check provisions? Comments: - What "free choice"? Read More » HIMSS: Part of the solution, or part of the problem?
The Washington Post has published a couple of articles within the last few days shining a spotlight on the obvious influence that HIMSS exercised in Read More » Deciding on Treatment
I have been contemplating my treatment options since I saw a local oncologist last week. Even though this is a recurrence, seeing an oncologist is Read More » They call it a nursing home for a reason
I remember a television advertisement not too long ago for an Alzheimer’s drug that has a middle-aged woman narrating about her fear that she would Read More » Medication aides in nursing homes: A push to save money or improve patient care?
A bill in the Tennessee Legislature would create a new 'medication aide' position in nursing homes. The bill would allow medication aides to Read More » From ACHCA: MDS 3.0 and “quality of life” regs – Audio
After presenting her 10-hour course for 43 ACHCA members on appropriately utilizing MDS 2.0, Leah Klusch, RN, BSN, FACHCA, nationally known Read More » From ACHCA: Association President/CEO Marianna Grachek on Convocation – Audio
Now in her third year as ACHCA President/CEO, Marianna Kern Grachek perceives a brightening mood in the organization, with revitalized grass roots Read More » Heck with “Meaningful Use”- It’s “Certified EHR Technology” I’m worrying about
I confess that I’m coming down with a serious case of Meaningful Use Fatigue. Since the ARRA included that phrase as a condition for receiving EMR Read More » From ACHCA: Union Card Check Update – With Audio
The bitter fight over the Employee Free Choice Act and its controversial union card check provision may be coming to a head soon, but with Read More » From ACHCA: ‘LTC Treated Like a Stepchild’
Long-term care still isn’t on the table for healthcare reform, even though Washington has riveted more attention on reform since the Clinton Read More » After Therapy and Restorative Ends
My first experience at a rehabilitation facility in the 70s surprised me because others and I were able to get therapy for long periods of time. Some Read More » Senior housing site selection blog
Hello everyone in senior housing land, this is the first blog I have ever participated in and I hope to hear from many of my colleagues, competitors, Read More » Nursing home employees should seek liability insurance coverage
While we can debate the 'fairness' in the lack of mandatory liability insurance for nursing homes when it comes to residents, I want to focus on a Read More » ASID: Is Indo/Asia ready to send their seniors to the “home”?
Will the Eastern world meet the Western world when it comes to Senior Living? It seems that while the East is looking to the West to develop best Read More » A Group Outing
It has been a year since I have gone on an activities outing. Since I get to go out on my own, I feel residents who do not should go with activities. Read More » Some Long Term Care Humor
The best humor here usually comes from night shift. Several days ago a night shift aide came in to tell me that a new male resident was surprised Read More » Where is the love?
Lists? I see lists all the time—top 10s, top 3s and what have you. But one crossed my desk recently that really got my attention: the AARP list of Read More » ALFA kicks off its 2009 conference
It’s spring in Philadelphia as the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) celebrates 20 years of dedication to the field and the people it Read More » Getting Through The Procedure
Surgery day went slower than we thought it would. After I registered we learned my surgery was delayed because of an emergency appendectomy. The Read More » Quality indicator meetings ‘de-stress’surveys
State surveys bring butterflies and stress to long term-care staff and administration. In order to survive these events, facilities must design Read More » Tracking environmental enhancements
When the National Institute of Medicine issued its report to Congress on the condition of the nation's nursing homes as of 1986, few saw the Read More » LTL Online
The Long-Term Living Web site serves daily news focused on the LTC field. The news feed covers reports and studies, governance, views and news from Read More » CMS pilot attacks unnecessary rehospitalization
Noting that one in five Medicare patients are rehospitalized after discharge, and three-fourths of these cases could be avoided, the Centers for Read More » A team approach to effective wound care
Most nursing facilities will tell families they do wound care, but not all wound care programs are as effective and successful as others. There are Read More » Shielding assets for Medicaid: The note and loan strategy
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush on February 8, 2006, is a federal law designed to severely Read More » Pay for performance begins
Medicare has begun a long-awaiting nursing home pay-for-performance demonstration in four states. Nursing homes are being asked to sign up for the Read More » Product Focus
Data Warehousing PowerCube, from MDI Achieve, is a robust data warehousing program designed to allow users to “slice and dice” data to manage their Read More » Nursing home wound care: The case for hyperbaric medicine
Bed sores, lesions, pressure sores, and chronic wounds are a constant source of worry, not to mention infection, and are enormously problematic for Read More » Eliminating inappropriate medications in the elderly
When thinking of quality improvement in the long-term care setting, not many areas are more important than the threat of medication errors and their Read More » 