PointClickCare on Monday asked a federal appeals court to overturn what it calls a “dangerous and unprecedented” injunction that is preventing the massive electronic health records firm from blocking ...
In 2009, a video featuring hospital staff dancing with pink gloves to raise awareness for breast cancer went viral. Now, 15 years later, I was recently ...
LTC leaders must develop new strategies to address the emotional and mental well-being of residents in the event of any ...
A new study shows how trace elements including heavy metals can impact cognitive function in older adults, depending on their ...
People with advanced dementia who received a permanent feeding tube spent more time in the hospital, had more events and were ...
Appealing a denied claim is almost always an option, there are very few unappealable instances, so preparation to follow up ...
Most of long-term care’s problems boil down to heavy dependency on low Medicaid reimbursement rates. The program paid 61% of ...
Federal health officials filed more than 75,000 pages of records with a federal court Friday to defend the new nursing home ...
The closing of another Maine nursing home could have been next in a disturbing trend. Instead, residents are moving to a new facility thanks to careful planning by owners who envisioned and executed ...
People with rare genetic variants that are linked to Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders have a higher risk for developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou ...
Washington state’s new, LTC insurance program gives residents a lifetime benefit of $36,500, which is worth about 81 days in ...
Appealing a denied claim is almost always an option, there are very few unappealable instances, so preparation to follow up on denied claims is essential.