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Combatting Elder Abuse in Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Monitoring

Bill of Health

One place where aging adults are likely to experience elder abuse occurs in long-term care (LTC) environments; this has been described as a “public health concern” in relation to the nursing home setting. In 2020, 15,000 complaints of abuse and neglect in nursing homes were reported to states’ ombudsmen across the U.S.,

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 Additionally, this information is now publicly available on CMS’s COVID Nursing Home Data Website.

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OIG Audit Finds Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied with Federal Requirements

Med-Net Compliance

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of 39 nursing homes they audited had possible deficiencies.

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OIG Finds Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied with Federal Requirements

Med-Net Compliance

They identified that 6,622 nursing homes had been cited for infection prevention and control program deficiencies as of February 26, 2020, and Medicare.gov indicated that 24 nursing homes were part of a nursing home chain. Read the full report here: [link].

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The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Bill of Health

By the late nineteenth century, North American public policy made use of large-scale isolated institutions, such as nursing homes, asylums, boarding homes, psychiatric hospitals, and group homes to provide services for those labeled as having disabilities. public health policy (e.g., However, the U.S.

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USP and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020

MedTrainer

USP <800> and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020. Another concern involved caregivers in a nursing home that needed to crush up an HD to mix it into a resident’s food or liquid to assist with swallowing the HD. Read the full article.

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Sweet Land of Immunity

Bill of Health

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. Read more about immunity from liability in the COVID-19 pandemic in Brown’s article, “ When the wrong people are immune, ” published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences in 2020. . Most healthy, smiling faces in the crowd got some.

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