December 01, 2017

Less than half of healthcare providers eligible to use the three-day hospital stay waiver available through the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative actually use it, a recent report shows.

My administrator has asked me to lead the effort to prepare our Facility-Wide Assessment (FWA). What does this mean for me, as the director of nursing?

A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program created to reduce hospital readmissions among nursing home residents has shown positive results after three years, the agency announced.

The nation’s largest for-profit hospice provider and its parent company will pay $75 million to settle allegations that it submitted false Medicare claims for hospice services, according to federal...

Nurses need more training on medical device-related pressure ulcers, according to a prospective study published in Ostomy Wound Management.

How should our facility prepare for the new survey process?

While long-term care continues to struggle between providing opioids for residents in pain and the ramifications from a national epidemic of overdoses, multiple attorneys general are now asking the courts...

A topical gel made from common blood pressure pills has been proven to speed the healing of chronic skin wounds in mice and pigs.

Although the Trump administration didn’t like its predecessor’s new threshold for determining overtime pay eligibility, it apparently is taking steps to raise the cut off point.

There has been so much in the news about arbitration agreements over the past year. Are we in the clear and can we use them again?