January 01, 2017

Why are formalized pressure injury risk assessments so important?

The American Geriatrics Society recently unveiled guidance for the term “unbefriended” for older adults. What does that term mean?

When it comes to electronic health records use, providers are filling a gradually building bandwagon, but struggling with resources and a lack of interoperability

SCA has added its Tena Bathing Glove as an option for U.S. long-term care facilities. As an alternative to soap and water, it is the first pre-moistened, disposable bath glove for professional caregivers,...

The Department of Health and Human Services has four years to end an estimated 700,000 Medicare appeal backlog, a court ruled.

Questions about the economy, Medicare funding and other reimbursement issues bring more risk to lending and investing in long-term care in 2017

3M has introduced C. diff Solution Tablets as an alternative for providers looking to kill challenging Clostridium difficile spores.

Providers are cheering a federal judge’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction in November against a rule that would have increased overtime pay eligibility.

Community gives residents with dementia a holistic relationship with the entire environment and eschews segregated living spaces

It’s like a dash of smelling salts under the nose. Talking to actual long-term care residents always affects me like that: an abrupt awakening from the fog and unconsciousness of stress, distraction...