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For the Elderly, Emergency Rooms of Their Own

Yana Paskova for The New York Times

A simulated skylight in the new geriatric emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital is intended to help patients with end-of-the-day agitation and confusion.

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Added by LTCCareer.com on April 10, 2012 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Missouri Survey Finds Nursing Home Patients, Families Pleased with Care

Almost 90 percent say they are satisfied with the long-term care in their nursing home

March 27, 2012 - As loved ones age and face challenges that prevent them from living on their own, family members often struggle with the decision to place their relatives in nursing homes. Sometimes viewed as last alternatives, long-term care facilities can have reputations as hopeless, institutionalized environments. A survey in Missouri, however, has found that…

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Added by LTCCareer.com on March 31, 2012 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Nursing homes trend toward more homey, less institutional settings

Her first night at St. John’s new nursing home in Penfield, Marguerite Bruno woke about 2 in the morning, took her walker and headed to the kitchen.

A staff member asked if anything was wrong, did she need anything.

A roast beef sandwich would be nice, the 94-year-old woman replied.

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Added by LTCCareer.com on March 26, 2012 at 10:23am — No Comments

Florida House passes nursing home bill with program Jacksonville University may not want

JU alumni pushing pilot program

By Matt Dixon

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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 27, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 22, 2012 at 2:17pm — No Comments

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

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

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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 15, 2012 at 6:49pm — No Comments

Nursing homes object to new state reimbursement formula

Breaking News

February 2, 2012 6:52 pm

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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 8, 2012 at 2:46pm — No Comments

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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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 6, 2012 at 4:01pm — No Comments

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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Added by LTCCareer.com on February 4, 2012 at 12:23pm — No Comments

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

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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Added by LTCCareer.com on January 20, 2012 at 11:58am — No Comments

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

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 — 1 Comment

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

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

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

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

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

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