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5 stages of highly effective LTC facility tours
Having conducted and participated in hundreds of facility tours during my career, I have been able to distill the…
Projects Read MoreBed bugs: LTC’s unwelcome residents
Long-term care facilities are prime feeding grounds for bed bugs. Like hotels and college dormitories where many people…
Projects Read MoreMedicare pays $5 million in “questionable” home health claims, OIG study finds
About $5 million in Medicare payments to home health agencies in 2010 went to claims that were later…
News Read MoreThe harmonization of clinical care and technology
In this blog I want to focus on Stage 5 of your future health information technology HIT infrastructure:…
Projects Read MoreCalifornia’s new LTC model for elderly and chronically ill inmates
Think of prisons and what comes to mind? Multistoried reinforced edifices surrounded by high, electrified fences and other…
News Read MorePentecostal moments in long-term care: Part 2
The first installment of “Pentecostal Moments in Long-Term Care” offered ethnographic snapshots of the wondrous effects of religion…
Projects Read MoreDealing with the side effects of antidepressants
In 1988 after I was fired from my job, I lost weight and ended up in the hospital,…
Projects Read MorePenalties for readmissions could hit low-income regions below the belt
The nation’s most vulnerable healthcare communities, including low-income urban and rural areas, are bracing for the impacts of…
News Read MoreJoint replacements linked to post-op heart attacks, study shows
Caregivers should closely monitor the cardiac functions of elderly joint-replacement patients during the first two to six weeks…
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