LeadingAge Texas and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center partner to remove the undeserved stigmas attached to a career in geriatric nursing and empower young nurses to realize their role in elder care. Read More »
Under the new healthcare law, the 15-member board would have had the authority to cut $575 billion from Medicare over 10 years through rationing and price controls. Read More »
This third of four Environments for Aging Citation of Merit winners illustrates creative solutions to design and healthcare challenges. The rehab center incorporated hospitality features on a small budget. Read More »
RACs are now allowed to request a maximum of 400 medical records in a 45-day period, while SNFs must provide documentation for Medicare beneficiaries’ entire episodes of care. Read More »
This first of four Environments for Aging Citation of Merit winners illustrates creative solutions to design and healthcare challenges. The homey skilled nursing facility excels in both form and function. Read More »
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends SNF payments rebasing in 2014 with an initial reduction of 4 percent and reduced payments to SNFs with higher rates of rehospitalization. Read More »
LTC providers should be as proactive and savvy as the American Medical Association when it comes to lobbying Congress by convincing residents to go to war for them when necessary. Read More »
The initiative aims to fund organizations that would partner with nursing facilities to provide enhanced on-site services to residents through evidence-based interventions. Read More »
Researchers said recognizing the differences between RNs and LPNs could lead to fewer medication errors in nursing homes, where an estimated 800,000 preventable adverse drug events occur annually. Read More »
LTC educator and consultant Leah Klusch offers critical guidance in navigating upcoming revisions in the resident assessment process. Providers, take note: The definitions for many terms and items have been changed. Read More »
States are eligible for the Medicaid grants if they currently spend less than 50 percent of their total long-term care costs on community-based options. Read More »
The four “Quality Initiative” goals have been defined for the next three years to set specific benchmarks for long-term and post-acute care quality improvement. Read More »
The Long-Term Quality Alliance released a white paper reporting the lack of quality measures in long-term care to prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions. Read More »
The 14 quality measures address a wide range of care concerns, including pain management, psychosocial needs, care transitions and experiences of care. Read More »
The 2013 budget includes proposals to cut approximately $248 billion on Medicare and $72 billion on Medicaid and to lower payments to nursing homes. Read More »
"Don’t mess with residents’ dietary requirements" is the rallying cry of Jewish nursing home advocates after a past veto by Mitt Romney for funding kosher meals garners renewed attention. Read More »
The end of life is not just a waiting game. It’s a time to respect the wishes of the dying and to celebrate his or her life. Surveys of older people indicate that they are not afraid of death, but they are worried about dying. Read More »
The industry is focused on reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient and staff satisfaction, AHCA/NCAL said. However, those goals may be in jeopardy with the likelihood of diminishing reimbursement. Read More »
The drug maker was accused of providing state officials kickbacks in exchange for including its Risperdal antipsychotic drug on an approved list for Medicaid recipients. Read More »
The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care decried MedPAC’s recommendations, calling them a “failure to recognize the obvious link between Medicare and Medicaid in financing SNF care.” Read More »
AANAC's Diane Carter asks: "Where can we as nurse leaders support LTC nursing while making it clear this is our profession of choice?" Her own answers may surprise. Read More »
Do you have an outstanding nurse, nursing assistant or student nurse that you'd like to acknowledge for his or her contributions to creating a quality care and quality environment for residents? Read More »
A new study finds that nurses working with electronic health records (EHRs) consistently reported more improvements to nursing care and better health outcomes for patients than nurses working in hospitals without this technology. Read More »
Already faced with the prospect of absorbing $127 billion in Medicare funding reductions through 2021, the long-term care industry may find itself confronted with even more strife in the year ahead. Read More »
Wound care nurses from three facilities share how the use of an electronic point-of-care documentation system is transforming their jobs and enabling them to achieve better outcomes. Read More »
Golden Living transitioned its corporate-wide information technology from multiple, disparate silos into a unified, easily accessed and intuitive new platform. Here’s how they did it. Read More »
