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LTCCareer.com Nursing home gets 5 stars again

 



With another perfect score, Pioneer Lodge put on magazine's honor roll.



By John Green - The Hutchinson News - jgreen@hutchnews.com



A nursing home in Coldwater has made an elite list of care homes from around the nation.

The 34-bed Pioneer Lodge is included in U.S. News and World Report's…

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LTCCareer.com AQNHC: CMS Rule Phase-In, No Additional SNF Cuts Critical to Preserving Quality Patient Care

AQNHC: CMS Rule Phase-In, No Additional SNF Cuts Critical to Preserving Quality Patient Care, Preventing More Direct Care Job Losses



By Alliance for Quality Nursing Home…
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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 18, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

LTCCareer.com President’s Budget of ‘Cuts Only’ is Wrong Approach

There are ways to reduce costs while enhancing quality, Parkinson says
Claire Navaro 202-898-6317
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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LTCCareer.com Nursing homes object to new state reimbursement formula

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                    February  2, 2012  6:52 pm               
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LTCCareer.com OHCA - Spring Expo

Spring Expo

Come on Down to the OHCA Game Show!

March 8th – 19th, 2012

Spirit Mountain Casino, Grand Ronde, OR…

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LTCCareer.com Union Theatrics Seek To Shame Nursing Home Owner

By MARA LEE maralee@courant.com The Hartford Courant 10:41 a.m. EST,

January 31, 2012 About 25 union members locked out at a Milford nursing home joined with three dozen New York University law and graduate students Monday in street theater aimed at shaming the co-owner of the HealthBridge nursing home chain. Daniel Straus, co-owner of the company that owns the Milford nursing home and 61 others, is a trustee at NYU's law school. The trustees were not meeting Monday, but it was the…

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LTCCareer.com Nursing home celebrates 75-year love story

Updated: Saturday, 28 Jan 2012, 12:01 AM EST Published : Friday, 27 Jan 2012, 5:51 PM EST

by Kevin Milliken,  FOX Toledo News reporter

 

SYLVANIA, Ohio (WUPW) - The Arbors at Sylvania helped a special couple mark their birthdays this week. He’s 97  years…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 30, 2012 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Tony Perry 365 LTC JOBS - COO, RVP, NHA, DON, MDS, PT, OT, SLP, CDM, BOM

 

Executive Search Solutions is a national leader in healthcare recruiting with a focus within the senior care industry. Our primary customers include Skilled…

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Added by Tony Perry on January 26, 2012 at 5:32pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com Calif. Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Concerned With Medical Parole Law

Friday, January 20, 2012



Long-term care ombudsmen in California are raising concerns that a state law  allowing paroled prison inmates to receive care at nursing homes could be  putting other nursing home residents at risk, the Bay Citizen/New York Times reports (Mieszkowski, Bay Citizen/New York…

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LTCCareer.com AHCA Statement on MedPAC Recommendations for FY 2013

Claire Navaro (202) 898-6317
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1/12/2012

Washington, DC – The following is a statement from the American Health Care Association (AHCA) President & CEO Mark Parkinson after today’s vote by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommending that…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 15, 2012 at 4:01pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com San Mateo Long-Term Health Care Center Faces Closure

On Thursday, San Mateo County health service officials said they plan to recommend that the county Board of Supervisors close the Burlingame Long-Term Care Center because of the nearly 49-year-old facility's age and because the county faces $9 million in state budget cuts. Read more:…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 12, 2012 at 3:58pm — No Comments

Tony Perry Representing top Long-term care organizations nationwide - LTC Jobs

Executive Search Solutions is a national leader in healthcare recruiting with a focus within the senior care industry. Our primary customers include Skilled Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living and Independent Living centers, Continuing Care…

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Added by Tony Perry on January 10, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com Happier Staffers at Nonprofit Nursing Homes

 

By PAULA SPAN

Reading between the lines of a study published in The Gerontologist recently, I noticed another vote for nonprofit nursing homes.

This isn’t a…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 10, 2012 at 2:22pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com National hospice company accused of fraud

   

            By Jordan Rau…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 5, 2012 at 11:34am — No Comments

LTCCareer.com Nursing home's daily visitor assists his wife

 12:58 PM, Dec. 28, 2011 | Comments A A By Jennifer Hewlett, Lexington Herald-Leader  USA Today nation LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTW)

During lunchtime at Mayfair Manor, Jack Sanders makes his way around the nursing home's dining hall, placing bibs on tables or around people's necks and giving each diner a squirt of hand sanitizer. It's a daily routine for him." I think washing hands has helped keep down communicable diseases," Sanders said. If a resident in a wheelchair needs to be pushed back…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on December 30, 2011 at 11:42am — No Comments

LTCCareer.com AHCA Statement on Passage of Extenders Legislation

Claire Navaro (202) 898-6317                 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12/23/2011
Washington, DC – The following is a statement…
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Added by LTCCareer.com on December 25, 2011 at 6:49pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com Involved family is a key to receiving good care in nursing homes

 

By Robin Erb

Detroit Free Press Medical Writer

Virginia Everett, 85, had something that many other nursing home residents don’t: a daughter and grandchildren who lived nearby and dropped in frequently. “I love ‘em,” she said of her visitors.

And that, experts say, is immeasurably more important than polished lobbies, state-of-the-art whirlpool tubs and, in some cases, even a…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on December 22, 2011 at 11:31am — No Comments

LTCCareer.com Medicaid cuts stun N.J. nursing homes

Sunday, December 18, 2011    Last updated: Monday December 19, 2011, 9:31 AM

BY COLLEEN DISKIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record

 

Nursing homes that care for the sickest of patients should have been paid more this year under a new Medicaid reimbursement formula. But because of state budget cuts,…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on December 19, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

LTCCareer.com New Study Shows Nursing Facility Providers to Receive Lump of Coal this Christmas Due to Medicaid Shortfalls

Medicaid Shorts Nursing Facilities by $6.3 Billion in 2011
Claire Navaro 202-898-6317
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
12/15/2011

Washington, DC – A lump of coal is what nursing facility providers should expect this Christmas from Medicaid, according to a new…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on December 15, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Tony Perry Legislative Action Alert

 

Congress Poised to Eliminate

Medicare & Medicaid "Bad Debt" Payments

URGENT - PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW!

LINK TO EMAIL CONGRESS

Added by Tony Perry on December 13, 2011 at 1:34pm — No Comments

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