Bill of Health
DECEMBER 18, 2023
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.,
Hall Render
MAY 2, 2023
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. COVID Staff Vaccine.
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Med-Net Compliance
JUNE 14, 2022
An Illinois nursing home was fined $25,000 after the Illinois Department of Public Health determined it failed to implement progressive interventions to prevent falls. The post Illinois Nursing Home Fined $25,000 over Resident’s Fall appeared first on Med-Net.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 17, 2022
First, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are seeing large numbers of suits , particularly for failures in infection control. It also questions whether shields reflect good public policy and suggests some of the politics that seemed to drive the legislators that voted for them. Of course, there are always exceptions.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 16, 2020
This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” ” Sixty-eight percent of provider executives surveyed by HRI said they plan to use more care navigators and coordinators in 2021.
Hall Render
MARCH 28, 2023
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. CMS ended several of the SNF blanket waivers in 2021 and 2022. CMS has allowed states and nursing homes to suspend these assessments for new residents for thirty days.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. Abolitionists and other critics of mass incarceration joined incarcerated people in proclaiming that prison ran counter to public health. By Dan Berger.
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