Directed by provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new health reform law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a Read More »
It's not every day you can lock down three of the field's most intriguing and expert sources on aging environments and design to debate best Read More »
Robert Stewart earlier this week admitted in court that he shot and killed eight people in a North Carolina nursing home back in March 2009. Even Read More »
In Holtsville, New York, many churches, along with community civic and social organizations, have found extra closet space thanks to Girl Scout Troop Read More »
A new study shows that among nursing home residents at high risk for pressure ulcers, black residents had higher prevalence rates than white Read More »
For the upcoming July 2011 issue of Long-Term Living, we asked three well known senior living designers to debate the pros and cons of various Read More »
The national debt ceiling debate escalated yesterday when President Obama, in a televised interview on CBS News, said that he can’t ensure that Read More »
On Orchard Cove’s skilled-nursing floor, urinary tract infections and pressure ulcers have become rare occurrences and medication usage is down. Read More »
Theresa Schultz is one of those people you feel like you’ve known for years within minutes of meeting her. When I and Long-Term Living editors Sandi Read More »
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is planning to review SNF billing at the end of the fiscal year and is imploring the Centers for Medicare & Read More »
Virtual reality and physical reality exercises can be used to increase the movement speed of a person with Parkinson’s disease, improving his or her Read More »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last Friday a new demonstration program to help states reduce the number of preventable Read More »
Early Saturday evening I was surprised that I had a few interesting cable TV programs to choose from. The original Susan Boyle special was on and I Read More »
How about this for a bold statement: Patient falls in hospital settings should not be considered preventable. That’s the conclusion of a recent Read More »
Electronic prescriptions have as many errors as handwritten prescriptions, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Read More »
A rising proportion of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. nursing home population is attributed to factors beyond simple demographic changes, Read More »
Past efforts made to correct errors by the Social Security Administration might have cost state Medicaid programs $4 billion—money that the federal Read More »
In 1Q11, overall nursing care occupancy was 88.5 percent, which is an improvement of 10 basis points from the prior quarter. Occupancy held up Read More »
More than 100 home health agencies that participated in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Home Health Pay for Performance (HHP4P) Read More »
The heat is on both literally and figuratively as we move into the height of summer. Healthcare providers have sweated out weeks of speculation over Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I heard some staff members talk about working at a hospital. They said there they would be assured an "outcome" for their work. Read More »
The healthcare industry as a whole requires a better understanding of the challenges older Americans face to influenza immunization, according to a Read More »
In a unanimous decision, the West Virginia Supreme Court last week ruled that nursing homes can't use arbitration to avoid resident or family Read More »
The use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms has been found to reduce the risk of acquiring infections by 40 percent, Read More »
Many people wouldn't dream of reserving a hotel room without first checking the customer lodging reviews on TripAdvisor.com. Nor would they purchase Read More »
Maybe it’s just me; I am getting older but I am starting to say things like “I can’t ever remember so many tornados, this much rain and all of these Read More »
