By David Coppins – The tide has turned post-COVID: long-term care facilities are cutting their staffing agency budgets and planning to hire everyone in-house. So what do staffing agencies actually do for facilities, and how can a healthcare facility master those functions?
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking steps to continue to protect nursing home residents’ health and safety by announcing guidance that restores certain minimum standards for compliance with CMS requirements.
By David W. Johnson – The Sorry State of Nursing Home Star Ratings – Patient Safety Awareness Week was March 14th-20th. On cue, the New York Times released a major investigative report on nursing home corruption, dysfunction, neglect and death.
By Kayla Matthews – Long-term care health facilities, like most other entities that deal with interactions between people, have to determine the best ways to navigate the common legalities to the industry.
By Phil Galewitz – Westminster Village North, a nursing home and retirement community in Indianapolis, recently added 25 beds and two kitchens to speed food delivery to residents. It also redesigned patient rooms to ease wheelchair use and added Wi-Fi and flat-screen televisions.