Promoting evidence-based interventions and tools would help prevent falls in senior living communities, according to comments LeadingAge recently submitted to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
Senior living employers get a chance to turn the tables
By
John O'Connor
Apr 15, 2020
For years, senior living operators could do little more than watch as food service outlets lured away frontline staff. But as it has done elsewhere, COVID-19 is reversing this reality.
Feds offering new risk assessment tool
By
John O'Connor
Jun 01, 2014
In an age where personal information is increasingly at risk of being exposed and stolen, protecting that data from brazen interlopers has become a monumental challenge.
Did Nancy Pelosi just kill Medicare for All?
By
John O'Connor
Nov 04, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday panned a Medicare for All proposal being forwarded by a number of Democrats currently running for president. Her implicit suggestion to fellow Democrats: Stick with...
In-home chemo infusion poses numerous health risks, groups insist
By
John O'Connor
Sep 24, 2020
Although many healthcare professionals see a bright future for telehealth and expanded care in home care settings, oncology groups are drawing the line at chemotherapy infusions.
ACHCA’s boss: While others get lauded, we get blamed
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John O'Connor
Apr 17, 2020
While frontline workers in other sectors are being thanked during the pandemic, those in the eldercare field are being ridiculed or worse, notes William “Bill” McGinley. And the American College of...
For returning GOP senators, it’s healthcare reform crunch time
By
John O'Connor
Jun 06, 2017
Senate negotiations on a bill to squash Obamacare quickly took center stage as Republican lawmakers returned from a 10-day recess.
House Ways and Means Committee approves Medicare telehealth extension
By
John O'Connor
May 08, 2024
Lawmakers took the first step Wednesday toward extending temporary telehealth rules put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for two years.
Telehealth’s upward growth trajectory hits a bump in February
By
John O'Connor
May 04, 2023
While the use of telehealth generally continues to expand, its use declined by 6.8% nationwide in February, according to the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
Coronavirus toll on state revenues could spill over
By
John O'Connor
Jul 09, 2020
As a coronavirus-caused recession continues to take hold, state and local governments are being forced to cut back support to schools, health programs and other support services, the Wall Street Journal...