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Celebrating the Journey is the theme for National Nursing Home Week® 2012. Throughout the week, skilled nursing care centers nationwide will plan events to honor the lives — and milestones — of the people they care for and the staff who serve them. Celebrating the Journey reminds us that every life should be honored, every life’s story needs to be told and that every day we have the chance to begin writing a new chapter. Whether the day is filled [...]
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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[...]
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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),[...]
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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[...]
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In addition to the two terms he proudly served in WWII, along with three in North Korea, one might be surprised to learn that Raymond Miller has triumphed through three rehabilitation[...]
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By Nancy Nolan
It was the end of a long day when Mary Knapp, Director of Health Services, got an email from a bathtub vendor to enter a contest and “win a one-of-a-kind, pink spa tub, made in[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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