9+ hour, 11+ min ago  (557+ words) With 37 fewer nursing homes than six years ago and half of providers turning away hospital referrals, Pennsylvania operators are sounding the alarm as the government plans to flat fund long-term care next year. Leading Age Pennsylvania this week published new…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (17+ words) Study: Caregivers more likely to believe government has primary responsibility for caregiving costs'Mc Knight's Long-Term Care News...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (856+ words) Nursing home operators must fight the dangerous misconception that therapy is no longer a primary driver of success under the Patient Drive Payment Model." That's according to experts who said that even though the six-year-old model has shifted reimbursement focus…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (420+ words) For years, the long-term care industry has been locked in a high-stakes battle against Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs). We have refined our insertion techniques, tightened our "early removal" protocols, and trained staff until "aseptic technique" became second nature. Yet,…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (133+ words) DOJ updates requirements for nonprosecution of companies that self-disclose misconduct. .. Hospitals selected for TEAM model more likely to have higher costs, greater post-acute care intensity " Fall prevention clinics for older adults yield strong ROI " Long-term care industry heads toward inflection…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (60+ words) Mc Knight's Long-Term Care News Power outages linked to more emergency hospital visits for older adults " Study uses sensing technologies to assess sleep quality and physical activity levels in nursing home residents " Plastic bottles transformed into Parkinson's drug thanks to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (272+ words) Adults hospitalized with sepsis who received timely antibiotics delivery and fluid resuscitation showed higher discharge rates to the home, according to a March study published in Chest. The study examined data from 38, 568 patients with community-onset sepsis across 67 hospitals participating in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (717+ words) One of at least 24 states that gave control of institutional long-term care to private insurance companies is walking away from the failed experiment. Indiana Gov. Michael Braun (R) on Thursday signed into law a change that will move nursing home patients…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (357+ words) The ACLU of New York is accusing nursing homes in the state of racial discrimination through use of blanket policies denying admission to convicted felons and parolees." Lawyers for the organization and its partner asked the state to issue guidance…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (161+ words) For nursing home residents with serious mental health diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, medication options can be limited. "Many people suffer from both chronic physical pain and mental disease," says Georgia Johnston, owner and chief executive officer at Therapy Zone in…...