Long Term Care news and information

Federal health information technology policymakers plan to establish a voluntary program for the testing and certification of electronic health-record systems used by long-term care, post-acute care and behavioral health providers.
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The CMS has issued its final Medicare 2014 payment rule for inpatient stays at acute-care hospitals and long-term care facilities.
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When addressing healthcare workplace safety concerns, most executives immediately think about hospital safety. They rarely think about one of the most hazardous professions in healthcare—the home healthcare aide.
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Asking 15 experts to solve a $200 billion-plus problem that has stymied federal lawmakers for decades seems challenging enough. Add to that task a deadline of less than three months, a bitterly divided Congress and a battle-weary administration.
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Playwright Susan Nussbaum, 59, has written an eye-opening first novel that is already generating controversy among the providers who care for the thousands of American children with intellectual, physical and emotional disabilities. Good Kings Bad Kings, released from Algonquin Press this...
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Some of the nation's largest healthcare landlords are pulling back from nursing homes on concerns they will be less profitable in an era of steep Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
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Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
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As a former investment banker, Henry Purchase was no stranger to paperwork. But even that did not prepare him for the forms and regulations he faced when moving his mother into a nursing home.
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Occupancy rates at senior-living centers are on the rise as the demand for housing grows and the pace of construction activity slows down, according to a report.
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