Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to | The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for (..)

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Louisiana revokes licenses from 7 nursing homes after Ida evacuation failures cost lives. Wed, 09/08/2021 - 12:27.

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Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There are limited data on the efficacy of boosters for preventing infection and death in nursing home residents, but the findings suggest that boosters may have significantly reduced COVID-19–associated morbidity and mortality in this population.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitals forced to delay patient discharges as nursing homes and rehab centers face major staff shortages. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:07.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Report: Nursing homes shed 221K jobs since start of pandemic while other sectors have recovered. Wed, 11/10/2021 - 16:20.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Private-equity-acquired nursing homes have worse resident outcomes, higher Medicare costs, study finds. Tue, 11/23/2021 - 15:53.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 19, 2021

Nursing home groups decry mandate push by CMS for staff to get COVID-19 vaccine. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 16:27.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 28, 2022

Medicare patients win the right to appeal gap in nursing home coverage. Fri, 01/28/2022 - 10:59.

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STAT

AUGUST 19, 2024

Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and feeding on doctors to generate profits. Read the rest…

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2023

Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership. | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that will require more transparency into nursing home ownership.

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Med Ed 101

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As a consultant pharmacist, I always try to stay on top of trends to help nursing homes stay on top of guidelines and best practices. With the help of a student, we reviewed 50 LTC facility surveys and share the findings of the most common 2024 nursing home survey deficiencies.

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Nursing Homes 52

Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Failing to protect the elderly from disease has consequences beyond nursing homes.

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Omnicell

MARCH 27, 2023

However, most people are unaware that the nursing home industry lost almost 235,000 workers—15 percent of its total workforce—during that time. Historically, nursing homes have been challenging to work in, with intense job demands and a lack of respect for their profession. during 2017-2018.

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Omnicell

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

However, most people are unaware that the nursing home industry lost almost 235,000 workers—15 percent of its total workforce—during that time. Historically, nursing homes have been challenging to work in, with intense job demands and a lack of respect for their profession. during 2017-2018.

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STAT

AUGUST 31, 2023

The American Health Care Association, which lobbies on behalf of nursing homes, did not comment on the list of 10 drugs or Medicare’s negotiating power. The Federation of American Hospitals offered no statement.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Smaller healthcare organizations, such as regional hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers and clinics, are not immune from cyberattacks and data breaches. Smaller healthcare organizations, such as regional hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers and clinics, are not immune from cyberattacks and data breaches.

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Pharma Mirror

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The post How Can Nursing Homes Protect Themselves from COVID-19? Researchers have found that the elderly are particularly susceptible to the COVID-19 virus that caused the epidemic. This is because they often have weaker immune systems, so they can’t fight off a viral infection easily. This new situation puts.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 3, 2020

The US drugmaker is testing the antibody – called LY-CoV555 and developed in collaboration with Canadian biotech AbCellera – in a phase 3 trial to see if it can prevent the spread of the coronavirus among residents and staff in US nursing homes.

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STAT

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The findings add to an accumulating body of literature underscoring the harm that occurs when financial investors take over health care providers — not only hospitals, but nursing homes , hospice care , and physician practices.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 31, 2023

In what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today described as a “parity adjustment recalibration,” the agency said it will

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Nursing Homes 98

STAT

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Doctors are trained to treat all sorts of patients — whether they’re at the clinic, the hospital or a nursing home — and respond to the unique needs of rural patients. Like Oyesiku, many graduates end up staying in the South. Read the rest…

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STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

days, it estimated, she would be ready to leave her nursing home. An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

while three leading wholesalers supply about 90% of medicines to hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, among others. Three group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, buy drugs on behalf of most hospitals in the U.S.,

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

People who are immunocompromised and those who live in nursing homes were also not included. But the trials for the vaccines, which have been approved for adults 60 and older, included few participants 80 and older. Read the rest…

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Med Ed 101

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Part of a consultant pharmacist job is trying to prevent nursing home survey deficiencies. The post 2018 Consultant Pharmacy Nursing Home Survey Deficiencies appeared first on Med Ed 101. In the video above I break down some examples of deficiencies that have already happened here in 2018.

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STAT

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested by specific groups of seriously ill patients, including those who lived in nursing homes or suffered from cognitive impairment, according to internal documents obtained by STAT.

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STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

American Society of Consultant Pharmacists executive director and CEO explained how staffing struggles in long-term care facilities can be an opportunity for pharmacists to expand the ways they provide support beyond immunizations alone.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

District Court of Minnesota accuses UnitedHealth and its subsidiary, NaviHealth, of using the computer algorithm to “systematically deny claims” of Medicare beneficiaries struggling to recover from debilitating illnesses in nursing homes. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mississippi has become the latest state to report residents infected with Candida auris, a highly contagious fungus that thrives in hospitals and nursing homes. It won’t be the last and, without dedicated effort, infections and deaths will continue to pile up. Read the rest…

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The FDA plans to finalize its ban on menthol tobacco products in the coming months, and the Department of Health and Human Services proposes comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

The number of referrals to nursing homes and home health agencies per patient has increased over the last year, as has patient acuity. Hospitals are finding it harder to place patients into post-acute care settings, a new report finds. | At the same time, referral rejection rates are also on the rise.

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STAT

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Before the allegations of neglect, before the lawsuits, before the government investigations, the health care nonprofit InnovAge had a simple mission: Help the sickest and poorest seniors live comfortably in their communities, beyond the confines of nursing homes and hospitals. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

MAY 23, 2023

At the time, the country was prioritizing high-risk people in high-risk settings, like older Americans in nursing homes. WASHINGTON — The incarcerated people at Federal Medical Center Devens should have been some of the first to receive the Covid vaccines, back when they first came out in December 2020.

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STAT

APRIL 10, 2023

Hospitals and nursing homes are competing for nurses after strikes across the country showed an empowered cadre of nurses fed up with high provider-to-patient ratios and stagnant wages. Three years after the pandemic upended the health care workforce, hospital staffing is still a top concern for hospital administrators.

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