Articles on "Nursing Homes"
34 Year Old Shares Perspective of Nursing Home
A 34 year old editor for a non-profit shares her experience of living in a nursing home for a month. She lost her ability to walk after a bout with a rare blood disorder. Read article
Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture at Nursing Homes
Research appears in May issue of Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. The study shows that senior managers at more than 4,000 facilities across the U.S. identify Joint Commission accreditation as a positive influence on patient safety issues such as staffing, teamwork, training, nonpunitive responses [...]
Pennsylvania Nursing Homes are in crisis
www.publicopiniononline.com reports that Pennsylvania Nursing Homes are in crisis, the article quotes Dr. Stuart H. Shapiro, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association (PHCA), “Two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s nursing home residents are on Medicaid, and for each one of them, a nursing home loses an average of $19.23 a day. These shortfalls are unsustainable.” According to PHCA: Staffing a nursing home around the clock makes up 70 percent of nursing home expenditures. At the same time, nursing homes are highly [...]
39 homes with perfect ratings in US News Honor Roll
U.S. News Best Nursing Homes aims to make one of life’s most difficult decisions a little easier. For the 3.3 million Americans who move into a nursing home each year, and for their caregivers and loved ones, the realization that a move is inevitable can be just the beginning of an agonizing process: figuring out where to go. Everyone deserves a home that will take care of their health needs and treat them with dignity. But only some nursing homes [...]
Nursing Home Quality Not Improving – Investigative Report USAToday
A recent USA Today report reveals that 560 of the nation’s nursing homes have not budged for the past three years from a one-star federal government rating — the lowest on a five-star scale. The star ratings are part of a broader federal effort to increase transparency for consumers of health care. When introduced in late 2008, nursing home industry groups called them simplistic and unfair. Some consumer advocates say nursing home quality can change quickly, and no ratings system [...]
Nursing Homes and Hospitals Prepare for Another Round of Budget Cuts
Nursing-home operators, already hit hard by last year’s cuts in federal and state funding, face another revenue loss in Pennsylvania Governors proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. The budget proposal, released Tuesday, calls for a 4 percent cut in the Medicaid reimbursement rate for nursing homes. The total revenue loss for nursing homes is projected by the Pennsylvania Health Care Association to be $46.5 million. That amounts to a nearly $8-per-day reduction in the average daily reimbursement [...]
NYT Article Explores Male / Female Occupancy in Nursing Homes
Paula Span explores a topic in her weekly New York Times post that touches on something discharge planning and case managers know all too well! She writes, “Nursing homes are heavily female, like the elderly population itself. A report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2010 found that about two-thirds of residents were women. In some homes I’ve visited, it looks closer to 80 percent. And most rooms in nursing homes are “semiprivate,” one of the great [...]
Emergency Room Visits Can Bring Infection Back to Nursing Homes
An emergency department visit may triple the risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections for nursing home residents, researchers found. The rate of new acute respiratory or GI infections was 5% within a week of an emergency department visit compared with 2% when not leaving the long-term care facility, according to Caroline Quach, MD, of McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues. Quach’s study examined outcomes at 22 nursing homes in Ontario and Quebec during the months of September 2006 to May 2008 [...]
People on the Move – Rockville, MD Nursing Home Expands
Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Facility has been at its location in Rockville since 1961. Potomac Valley Nursing and Wellness Facility wants to add a 15,222 square-foot, two-story addition to its existing building and renovate resident rooms and common areas, according to documents filed with Rockville’s Department of Community Planning and Development Services. The proposed upgrade to the 1235 Potomac Valley Road property includes a new physical therapy rehabilitation center, amenities and common rooms. The nursing home now features 175 [...]
Helping more than his wife in a nursing home
Jack Sanders doesn’t work in the Mayfair Manor Nursing Home, but you would never know it if you saw him there. Jack is at the nursing and rehabilitation center more than most full-time employees, 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. seven days a week to be exact. Jack is there to be near his wife Esther, who has been a resident for over 2 years. Jack doesn’t limit his helpfulness to his wife, he chips in wherever help is needed for all residents [...]
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