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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…

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Bed bugs: LTC’s unwelcome residents

Long-term care facilities are prime feeding grounds for bed bugs. Like hotels and college dormitories where many people…

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Medicare 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…

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The harmonization of clinical care and technology

In this blog I want to focus on Stage 5 of your future health information technology HIT infrastructure:…

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California’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…

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Pentecostal 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…

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Dealing with the side effects of antidepressants

In 1988 after I was fired from my job, I lost weight and ended up in the hospital,…

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Penalties 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…

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Joint 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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