Federal officials say a plan to cut nearly $4 billion in Medicare funding to nursing homes is just a correction to curb unanticipated overspending. Critics say it’s a wrongheaded move that could force ...
Despite the compounding challenges of leading a team with upward of 93,000 nurses amid national staffing strains, an incessant pandemic and high burnout rates for the profession, Sammie Mosier, BSN, ...
In a few days, the winners of HCPro's 2010 Nursing Image Awards will be announced. Out of hundreds of nominees, two nurses will be selected as the embodiment of leadership and clinical excellence. I ...
No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...
LOT AND THEY HAVE MADE PROGRESS. THEY ALSO MADE SOME OBSERVATIONS. >> I THINK THERE IS ALWAYS SOME CONCERNS ABOUT ANY OUTBREAKS THAT WE HAVE HAD. BARRY: HEALTH OFFICER ED SINGER GIVING AN UPDATE ON ...
How often – and how well – do health care programs teach lessons about the impact that climate exerts on health? And as more of us are exposed to and sickened by toxins, polluted air, unsafe drinking ...
NEWBURGH — Mount Saint Mary College nursing students have been giving lessons on how to live healthier at local schools this spring. The students gave their health lessons as part of the Community ...
The Tragedy: On Sept. 11, 2007, a 71-year-old woman with metastasizing cancer was transferred from a hospital to Pacific Care Manor, a nursing home in Capitola. Just prior to her admission, the ...