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Nursing Home Care Keep Getting More Expensive
Always a costly option, nursing homes have reached a new high. Approximately $67,527 five years ago, the average price has risen to $83,950. And in the past year alone the fee jumped 4%, according to Genworth’s 2013 Cost of Care … Continue reading
Tags: assisted living facilities, Home Care, home health aide, nursing homes
Coordination of Care Offers Opportunities for Providers
Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies, it would be difficult to miss the fact that the UK chose this very public stage to celebrate, of all things, their healthcare system. It is hard to imagine such a thing happening on US … Continue reading
Tags: Business, health care, Home Care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, nursing homes, research
Collaboration is the Key to Success for Long Term Care Facilities
Despite government threats of financial penalties, hospitals have made little headway in improving rates of preventable readmissions, according to recent Medicare data. More than 20% of Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of discharge and despite policy … Continue reading
Tags: Business, health care, health care facilities, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, Medicare, nursing homes
New Therapeutic Surface for Pressure Ulcer Treatment Provides Patient Comfort and Significant Cost Savings for Facilities
Proper product utilization is crucial to lessening pressure ulcers. In the hospital and long-term care setting, it is important for medical professionals to address what is not only clinically efficacious but also reasonably priced. According to McKnight’s Long Term Care … Continue reading
Tags: Decubitus Ulcers, Long Term Care, Low Air Loss Bed, nursing homes, Pressure Ulcers, Rehab Facilities
PolyGel Portable Device for DVT Therapy Helps Patients Be Compliant After Surgery
Major surgical procedures are events where medical staff must be reminded that certain patients can be at higher risk for deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism. Postphlebitic syndrome and pulmonary embolisms can occur in the hours, days, and weeks after … Continue reading
Tags: DVT therapy, Hospitals, nursing homes, PolyGel portable device, sequential compression devices, Vascular PRN
New Approaches to Lessen Symptoms After a Blood Clot Discussed By Vascular PRN
Recent news headlines continue to show how people are affected every day by blood clots. The University of Nebraska head women’s basketball coach, leading athletes, and even teens have been the latest people to experience blood clots. Without warning, these … Continue reading
Tags: compression devices, compression stockings, compression therapy, Greg Grambor, Health care professionals, nursing homes, SCD boots, sequential compression devices, surgery centers, Unna boots, Vascular PRN
New Skin IQ™ Coverlet Helps Nursing Home Administrators Cut Costs
Directors of nursing homes are preparing for big decreases in Medicare reimbursements that begin October 1. Medicare rates will lessen by 11.1 percent, which is making nursing home operators and administrators look for every opportunity to cut costs to make … Continue reading
Tags: Assisted Living, nursing facility, Nursing Home Administrators, nursing home facility, nursing homes, rehabilitative care, Skilled Nursing, Skin IQ, Vascular PRN
Advance Care Plans Are Crucial for Mentally Ill
Ironically enough, it’s the ones that need them most that by and large don’t have advance care directives in place. These significant plans usually encompass living wills; do-not-resuscitate orders; do-not-hospitalize orders; and restrictions on feeding tubes, medications or other treatments … Continue reading
Tags: advance care directives, advance care plans, bipolar disorder, do-not-hospitalize orders, do-not-resuscitate orders, feeding tubes, living wills, medications, mentally ill, nursing homes, proxy, Psychiatric Services Journal, schizophrenia, treatments
Itching to Rid Nursing Homes of Bed Bugs?
You knew it would only be a matter of time before the Long Term Care Industry would be bitten by bed bugs. Come on… Hotels, Homes, Theatres… of course – Nursing Homes. That’s bed bugs with a vengeance! A few … Continue reading
Tags: bed bugs, EPA, Health Care, Long Term Care, nursing homes, pest management company, pesticides
