Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Thousands of nursing home and hospital patients have been moved to other facilities as recovery efforts continued Sunday.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitals forced to delay patient discharges as nursing homes and rehab centers face major staff shortages. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:07.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 28, 2022

With nurses in high demand, hospitals and nursing homes are forced to accept "exorbitant" rates set by staffing agencies, their lobbies argue.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Portland, Oregon-based OCHIN announced its entrance into acute care this week with a full-service inpatient electronic health record system that supports interdisciplinary care plans and clinical care coordination in an effort to focus on helping smaller hospitals nationwide. million patients.

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 21, 2022

The Justice Department has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against an Ohio nursing home operator and three affiliated nursing homes for providing grossly substandard skilled nursing services between 2016 and 2018. The nursing homes are in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced that they will be enhancing their focus on potentially preventable hospitalizations of Medicare-eligible skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. and 42 CFR § 483.25).

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Massachusetts’ Attorney General has secured settlements with five Massachusetts nursing homes to resolve allegations of patient neglect, insufficient staff training, and inadequate care for vulnerable nursing home residents. They also failed to report the significant health declines of one resident to a physician.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 9, 2022

An Illinois nursing home was named in a lawsuit alleging the staff’s negligence resulted in a resident’s fall. According to the lawsuit, when the resident was admitted to the nursing home, the staff were told that she was at risk for falls, had dementia, and was almost completely blind.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 20, 2022

In data released for the first time Wednesday, HHS also found changes in ownership over the past six years have been much more common in nursing homes than hospitals, with wide variations in ownership by state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

A unique remote monitoring system, developed at MIT and deployed in some hospitals and long-term care settings, is now showing further promise for advanced assessment of potential COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and other congregate care communities, according to researchers at the school's CSAIL institute.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A fire at a Washington nursing home displaced seventy-seven residents and drew a coordinated response from local firefighters. Five residents were transported to local hospitals for further evaluation, according to the local police department. They were then moved to other facilities or hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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NY Health Law

APRIL 28, 2021

In recent months, there has been a lot of attention on decisions made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State in regard to nursing homes. Nursing home operators themselves have faced suspicion in regard to such readmissions. Such funds will be used to support the Nursing Home Quality Pool.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Charges were filed against two nursing home employees who were caught on camera beating and dragging an 87-year-old resident, according to officials with the Texas City Police Department. Texas City police said they had received a complaint about an elderly male being assaulted by two caregivers at an area nursing home.

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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 facility was investigated after a complaint about a resident who fell and wasn’t sent to the hospital for multiple days despite having right leg pain.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Since it was built in 2020 at NYP's Centre for Innovation for Electronics and Internet of Things, it has been piloted at Singapore General Hospital and St. A new trial is ongoing at the SASCO Senior Citizens' Home while another pilot is slated at St. Andrew's Nursing Home.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 25, 2023

Hospitals are finding it harder to place patients into post-acute care settings, a new report finds. | The number of referrals to nursing homes and home health agencies per patient has increased over the last year, as has patient acuity. At the same time, referral rejection rates are also on the rise.

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HealthStream

APRIL 28, 2021

Though many people think of the hospital as a typical nursing work environment, the reality is that nurses work in a variety of settings. This blog post looks at some of the characteristics and challenges of working in assisted living vs. nursing home care.

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Hanys

APRIL 26, 2024

With generous support of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, six nursing homes will each receive $1,000 to support CNA recruitment efforts and $5,000 for each of five new CNAs onboarded, certified and trained by Dec. and The Homestead at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.

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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.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA) reported that an Iowa nursing home would be fined $20,000 after a resident was inappropriately discharged and left outside for 11 hours overnight. The taxi service contacted Emergency Medical Services and the resident was transported to the hospital.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

An Iowa nursing home was cited for placing its residents in immediate jeopardy after a resident became wedged between a bed and a grab bar and suffocated. The post Iowa Nursing Home Resident Suffocated Due to Grab Bar Entrapment appeared first on Med-Net.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given surveyors new rules and updates to allow surveyors to add extra attention and increase oversight in nursing homes regarding the quality of care and quality of life for residents.

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Modern Healthcare

APRIL 15, 2022

“And while we are learning to live with this virus and when we should ramp up and ramp down with our preparedness, we are able to move on from these orders which served a very important purpose,” said Manisha Juthani, the state's public health commissioner.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

billion Utah hospital portfolio to CommonSpirit Health following CommonSpirit’s acquisition of Steward Health Care System’s Utah operations. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that four formerly for-profit hospitals were not exempt from property tax , despite being purchased by a nonprofit entity.

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Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2023

AdventHealth has exited the nursing home business, selling all 10 of its SNFs to third-party operators. A Los Angeles ballot measure backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West would cap pay for hospital executives at $450,000 per year. It could be converted into a specialty hospital or outpatient facility.

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Modern Healthcare

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A ruling in favor of the Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County could affect millions of Americans who rely on federal assistance programs.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 15, 2019

Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes. Nursing facilities. This duty is especially important when it comes to the care provided for some of the most vulnerable in our society, Americans residing in nursing homes. CMS’ approach to oversight of nursing homes is constantly evolving.

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Hall Render

JULY 5, 2023

Medication Needs The CMS Memo highlighted that medication information is a key admission item that skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies need to obtain from acute care providers. 24-48 hours before being discharged). Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only.

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Health Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2020

A coronavirus preparedness checklist for hospitals, including long-term acute care hospitals are available from the CDC. Follow the links below to download from the CDC.

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Hall Render

JUNE 8, 2023

Over 500 nursing home providers gathered in Washington, DC recently to protest an upcoming minimum staffing rule that CMS is currently drafting. KPC Promise Hospital may be evicted from Merit Health River Region Hospital in Vicksburg, MS.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Welltower has selected Integra Healthcare Properties, a newly-formed company with a 29-year-old CEO, to manage 147 nursing homes in 15 states. Integra will lease the nursing homes from Welltower and then sublet them to regional operators. million in affordable housing in Bel Aire, Kansas.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 3, 2023

Nursing homes, rehab providers and psychiatric hospitals urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to account for economic conditions in fiscal 2024 rates

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Workplace violence has become one of the key management challenges and sources of enterprise risk for hospitals over the past several years. a patient who was acting out and shot in his hospital room by off-duty police officers following the failure of hospital staff to perform appropriate assessment and de-escalation of the patient.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

On another note, there has been a continued shift in referral patterns to home health. Patients are increasingly opting to recover in the home instead of a hospital or rehab facility, which requires care coordination. What's clear is that in the shift to home-based care, care coordination is a must-have, not a nice-to-have.

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