May 01, 2017

How can repositioning and mobilization be most effective in preventing pressure injuries in this day and age?

Heart failure patients who went to a nursing home were 50% more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than patients who returned home instead, according to a study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

“We get out the ruler. We’re kidding! We try to get them to talk to each other and listen to each other. You have to meet them where they are. The last thing they want us to do is bring God...

Parts of McKesson Corporation and Change Healthcare Holdings have merged to create a new healthcare information technology company called Change Healthcare. It includes all of Change Healthcare’s...

Canadian researchers urged reconsideration of how drugs are administered to nursing home residents with dementia shortly before death.

With one son in college and another trying to figure out where to attend, the future job market is a topic near and dear to this writer’s heart.

SCA, which owns Tork and Tena, has announced they will be split into two separate companies. The Away-From-Home tissue and medical solutions company formerly known under Tena and Tork will be called Essity,...

The 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards are now accepting submissions from long-term and senior care providers.

We all have guilty pleasures — things we secretly enjoy but don’t have the courage to admit to long-term care colleagues at stand-up.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted in April to recommend an accelerated timeline that would see implementation of a site-neutral post-acute care payment system kick off in 2021.