Springfield Health and Rehabilitation Center in Springfield, OH are in Washington to become the first healthcare provider of any type to receive the Better Business Bureau International Torch Award for Marketplace Excellence. You don’t often associate nursing homes with Better Business awards let alone a national one. The competition was...
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Blacks 15% Less Likes to Get Proper Vaccinations in Nursing Homes
From Health Day News – A new study in the American Journal of Public Health finds racial disparity in vaccination rates among U.S. nursing-home residents. Blacks were 13 percent to 15 percent less likely to get vaccinated than whites. Researchers analyzed a 2004 survey of 11,448 white and 1,174 black...
SAGE Awarded Grant for National Resource Center
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Administration on Aging have awarded Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) a three-year, $900,000 grant to create the nationÛªs only national resource center on LGBT aging. The National Technical Assistance Resource Center for LGBT Elders will...
Long-Term Quality Alliance Launched
A group of the nationÛªs leading health, consumer, and aging advocates has formed a new alliance, The Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA), which aims to broaden efforts to improve quality of care to include community-based settings as well as nursing homes. It will do so by fostering ÛÏperson-centeredÛ quality measures for...
Why Steve Jobs Should Run Healthcare!
New terms are being bantered about in healthcare. One is the accountable care organization. The idea is that a group of providers – primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals – would come together and be responsible for the cost and quality of care for a given population. In theory, and in...
Let’s Build Better Boards of Directors
Read our guest post in McKnight’s Long Term Care News and Assisted Living.
GOA – Nursing Home Deficiencies Understated
Here is something scary. The Government Accountability Office has issued a report that finds that general weaknesses in the nursing home survey process contribute to the understatement of deficiencies at nursing homes. Shortcomings of current surveys includes too many tasks, problems with guidance on identifying deficiencies, workforce shortages, surveyor inexperience,...
NASA Work With Astronauts Could Help Curtail Falling Among Elderly
Researchers at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute are working with astronauts to re-orient them to re-entry into earth and that research could benefit seniors and prevent falls. Astronauts experiencing weightlessness often suffer from disorientation, motion sickness and a loss of sense of direction because their bodies try to adapt...
More Nursing Home Myths Busted
The common myth about nursing homes is that they are places you go to die or that the mentally ill populate them. People have nothing to do; have no friends; the list goes on. Well here is a story that should shatter some nursing home myths and misconceptions. The Beaumont...
Nursing Home Kickbacks and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Them
Pharmacy giant Omnicare recently agreed to pay a $98 million settlement in connection with allegations it engaged in an illegal kickback scheme with drug maker Ivax. The same day, officials filed an additional complaint against Omnicare and nursing home giants Mariner and SavaSenior Care in relation to other alleged kickback...