"The Senior Care Resource Network"
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The wide range of services for California's elderly population must be better coordinated to maximize the quality of long-term care, according to experts at the recent Summit on Transforming California's Long-Term Services and Supports, HealthyCal reports.
The SCAN Foundation sponsored the summit that took place in Sacramento on …
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has shelved a financially troubled long-term care insurance plan. Officials said Thursday the staff has been cut and…
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“Critics don't understand…
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Newly proposed legislation aimed at easing painkiller-dispensing regulations in nursing
homes is being loudly condemned by…
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Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid threaten access to quality care for America's growing population of seniors.
Nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living are all part of the solution to both rising health care costs and local job creation.
Take action today — call your Member of Congress and tell them to preserve, protect and defend quality skilled nursing and rehabilitative care for seniors and people with disabilities.
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Small group homes for people with dementia provide good quality care and a domestic environment where people can live as individuals and families can get involved. But tension can arise when it comes to deciding who takes…
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Higher flu vaccination rates for health care personnel can dramatically reduce the threat of flu outbreak amongnursing home residents, according to a study published in the October issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the
journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
The study, which focused on nursing homes in New Mexico, found that when a facility had between 51 and 75 percent of its health care personnel with direct patient care…
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press release
SPRINGFIELD, OH, Sep 08, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- AdCare Health Systems, Inc.…
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CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report released jointly today by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN Foundation shows some states significantly out-perform others in the delivery of long-term services and supports (LTSS) to older adults and people with disabilities.
The full report, along with an interactive map that displays state-by-state information, is…
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Nursing home residents may soon face higher costs and reduced services, as planned Medicare spending cuts take effect this fall.
It's an indirect -- and, some say, unanticipated -- consequence of more
routine cost-cutting for the nation's biggest health-care provider. On July 29,
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that, starting in
October, it will begin cutting their reimbursement rates to nursing homes by…
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below make up the 2011 Honor Roll. They were the only homes, out of more than 15,500 in the latest U.S. News Best Nursing Homes…
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