Archive for the ‘Caregivers / Homecare’ Category
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance and Homewatch CareGivers, the largest, most experienced international provider of home care for people of all ages, teamed up to conduct a study examining trends in long-term health care and the utilization of associated support services...
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
A study recently released by the UNC Institute on Aging has identified three workplace interventions that are improving quality of care and reducing staff turnover in North Carolina's nursing homes. Thomas R. Konrad, PhD, research professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a senior scientist at the Institute on Aging, is a co-author of the study.
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
More than one million Americans are living in nursing homes, but many would prefer to receive the services they need in their own homes, where they would be more comfortable and potentially save the health care system money in the long run. Unfortunately, many Americans who want to be cared for at home can't because of a costly institutional bias in Medicaid, which pays for nearly two-thirds of the country's nursing home residents.
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) applauds Representative Steve Kagen (D-WI) and Representative Lee Terry (R-NE) for the introduction of the "Home Healthcare Nurse Promotion Act of 2009.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
For the first time in history, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today released quality ratings for each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. Facilities are assigned star ratings from a low of one star to a high of five stars based on health inspection surveys, staffing information, and quality of care measures. The ratings are publicly available on the agency's Nursing Home Compare Web site at www.medicare.gov.
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill that will prohibit health care facilities from requiring mandatory overtime of staff, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The NMC is set to approve this important new guidance on 3 December 2008 - which covers a wide range of topics such as communication, personal hygiene and maintaining privacy and dignity. Essential principles The guidance, to be published in 2009, will contain essential principles for the UK's 674,000 nurses, who represent 35 per cent of the NHS clinical workforce, to interpret their professional Code of conduct, performance and ethics as it applies to older people.
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