For years, the donated piano sat upright and unused in a corner of the nursing home’s cafeteria. Now and then someone would wheel or wobble over to pound out broken notes on the broken keys, but those out-of-tune interludes were rare. Day after surrendering day, the flawed piano remained mercifully silent.       

Then came a new resident, a musician in his 80s with a touch of forgetfulness named Boyd…

On Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 33-17 to approve  a bill (HR  1173) that would repeal the Community Living Assistance Services and  Supports Act created by the federal health reform law, The Hill's  "Healthwatch"…

The state Department of Health Care Services' California Partnership for  Long-Term Care has launched a new website -- RUReadyCA.org



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The decision by nursing homes whether or not to treat an ill resident on-site or send them to a hospital are often linked to that person's insurance status. A new study out this month shows that on average individuals enrolled in Medicaid are 27 percent more likely to be sent to the hospital than individuals with private insurance – decisions that often result in higher costs of care and poor health outcomes.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Joshua Bright for The New York Times

HEARTH Shirlie Decostanza, from left, Evelyn Locicero and Marie Rachel at Green Hill Retirement Community.

By LAURIE TARKAN

Published: October 31, 2011   

October 31, 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown

(D-CA)…

It's an all too common scenario in U.S. nursing homes a 90-year-old resident with moderately advanced Alzheimer's disease, congestive heart failure with severe left-ventricular…