According to the Office of the Inspector general, almost a fifth of nursing aides charged with abuse and neglect had prior convictions. Nineteen percent of long-term care nursing aides who were found guilty of on-the-job abuse, neglect, or property theft in 2010 had prior criminal convictions. Overall, the 300 nurse...
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Nursing Home Quality Improving (VIDEO)
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Nursing Home Quality Improving
New government health data shows that quality in AmericaÛªs skilled nursing centers is improving, while scores for facilities receiving the lowest rankings are on the decline. Examining over 15,000 facilities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that its Five-Star Rating System (Five-Star) for skilled nursing care centers...
How to Know When Your Loved One is Ready for a Facility
The following is a guest post from Sandra Harris. No one really wants to get old and reach the point where they can no longer care for themselves. But, as hard as it is on the older person, itäó»s just as hard on his or her family and loved ones...
Healthcare Doesn’t Hit Home Until It’s Personal
We have had some health issues with mom this year. At 89 we almost lost her but she is a trooper. It occurred to me that despite my 26 years in healthcare, I knew little really about the healthcare experience. So here are two blogs I guest wrote. The first...
Beyond Dementia – Reasons for Nursing Home Admissions and What You Can Do For Your Elders
The Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged examines predictors of nursing home admissions among seniors without a dementia diagnosis. It is one of the first analyses that don’t consider dementia. 1,024 elderly adults over 75 without dementia were interviewed six times on average every 1.4 years, according to the report....
NY Nursing Home is One to Emulate
I don’t usually plug nursing homes specifically but one caught my eye for a few programs they are doing. Island Nursing and Rehab Center in Holtsville, NY offers ian nteractive program which aims to link its residents more closely to their families/friends, by means of web-based internet technology. So essentially...
New Consumer Checklist Available for Choosing Nursing Homes
The Advancing Excellence in AmericaÛªs Nursing Homes CampaignÛªs Consumer Tip Sheet provides nursing home residents and family members basic information and 10 questions they should be asking to better understand resident care planning, staffing, important care issues and the significance of measuring resident and family satisfaction. In a typical year,...
Brown University Introduces New Web Site to Compare Nursing Homes
A new web site for analyzing and choosing nursing homes has been developed by the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research at Brown University. It is www.LTCfocUS.org. Because it is academically based it seeks to provide evidence based data that is unencumbered by the politics and the inaccuracies of other...
Medication Abuse in a Nursing Home
Three employees of a California nursing home are in police custody accused of forcibly administrating psychotropic drugs to patients to make them easier for staff to control. One, a former director of nursing, ordered that dementia patients be given high doses of the mood-altering drugs not as part of their...