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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The recent Caring for Carers Ireland 17th National Weekend & Conference at the Clare Inn Hotel, Dromoland was attended by over 600 Carers from all over the countryProf. Brendan Drumm who opened the Conference, said "I am humbled to be in the presence of these dedicated people who represent 161,000 ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Mental health services and community-based services, such as personal care attendants, are unavailable to many American Indians in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, according to report recently released by the Native American Disability Law Center, Indian Country Today reports.The report is based on a needs assessment of American Indians ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Long-term healthcare providers are increasingly challenged to find the best caregivers to serve a growing population of residents. With the talent shortage at an all-time high, long-term care organizations are differentiating themselves by using selection and hiring solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to attract and retain the best caregivers. Several growing ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Nursing Home Quality, the national leader in Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) based quality assurance solutions for long-term care providers, announced the release of the latest version of abaqisTM, a web-based quality assurance system designed for use by nursing home providers to identify quality concerns and focus quality improvement efforts. The ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Hospice booklet: Author and social worker Gloria Thomas Anderson has written a booklet aiming to provide blacks with information about end-of-life care. The booklet, titled "What Ya'll Gon' Do With Me?: The African-American Spiritual and Ethical Guide to End of Life Care," is available at no cost through the Kansas ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
There are people who have traditionally been forgotten in the field of health. However, they are vitally important for patients' well-being: they are the family caregivers in hospitals. A study carried out at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Granada and led by lecturer Rafael Briones Gomez, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
More than two thirds of people in care homes are living with dementia and thousands of them and their carers are left exposed by this scandalous legal loophole. There should never be any compromise when it comes to treating people with fairness, dignity, equality and respect and there needs to ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Máire Hoctor, T.D, Minister for Older People, launched a new book by The Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre (SPARC) In Trinity College Dublin. The title of this publication is "Home Care for Ageing Populations: A Comparative Analysis of Home Care Services in Denmark, the United States and Germany".This book, ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
CMS on Tuesday released the complete list of U.S. nursing homes that failed to meet safety and quality standards for care, identifying 131 as deficient, CQ HealthBeat reports. The original list, released in November 2007, identified 54 facilities that were designated as "special focus facilities" that require additional oversight and ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) built upon historic action it took last November by making public more names of underperforming nursing homes across the country. On November 29, 2007, the agency began publishing the names ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
CMS last week announced that Medicare quality improvement organizations will focus more of their efforts on nursing homes and hospitals that offer the most likelihood for improvement in selected areas as part of a set of new responsibilities, CQ HealthBeat reports (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 2/8).CMS pays about $300 million annually ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
A Senate bill introduced last week would impose a $500,000 surety bond requirement on providers of durable medical equipment (DME) under Medicare and would put thousands of small homecare companies out of business, says the American Association for Homecare. A law passed in 1997 requires a $50,000 surety bond ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publicly identified over 4000 nursing homes - more than 25% of facilities nationwide - whose residents are physically restrained, or have pressure sores, or both, in excessive numbers. This should be a call to action to both Congress and the Centers ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
"Over the past five years, nursing homes nationwide have been on a quest to improve quality in their work for America's most vulnerable citizens. This journey started with the development of Quality First under the guidance of National Commission for Quality Long-term Care and continued with the establishment of the ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) announces a groundbreaking strategic partnership with My InnerView to further the development of a national database on resident, family, and employee satisfaction levels. NCAL is committed to promoting quality in the assisted living profession and recently selected My InnerView to be its ...
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