Skipping tech over price tag an ‘opportunity lost’ for hesitant nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 26, 2024
While it remains difficult to quantify how investments in technology are paying off, some skilled nursing providers say they are buying into more options because today’s margins don’t afford them missed...
Analytics firm takes on EHR giant PointClickCare in ‘life and death’ information-sharing lawsuit
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 14, 2024
Real Time Medical Systems has asked a federal judge to force the nation’s largest post-acute EHR provider to keep its clients’ data accessible, saying information-blocking “will cause needless patient...
Overcoming objections
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2015
When it comes to bathing residents with special needs, many long-term care facilities find themselves in a slippery situation.
Medicare Advantage plans banking on non-medical home care needs
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 28, 2020
An exploding number of Medicare Advantage plans are working with home care providers to provide non-medical services ranging from therapeutic massage to grocery store transportation, according to benefit...
Medicaid expansion filled unmet needs for home health, other long-term care: JAMA
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 01, 2020
Broader Medicaid eligibility was associated with a significant increase in the use of long-term care — both institutional and at-home services — according to a study in JAMA Network Open.
Temi robots bring joy to residents and a Tech Awards Gold award to Williamsburg Landing
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2020
A pursuit to adopt technology that serves and entertains residents paid off this spring for Williamsburg Landing, Gold winner in the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards for its High-Tech/High-Touch...
‘Sky is the limit’ for health information networks’ SNF insights
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2024
An expanding health information exchange connecting 71 hospitals and nearly 600 post-acute providers in New Jersey is exceeding expectations.
Beyond surface cleaning
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 01, 2014
Operators use room turnover as an opportunity to eliminate sometimes deadly bugs by layering basic cleaning with next-generation solvents and technology.
Fellowship Community’s Lisa Vercusky had been looking for new ways to engage with memory care residents when an online search at home led her to a tool common in Europe but virtually unheard of in the...
Good Samaritan Society to exit 15 states, trim capacity by 30 percent
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 12, 2023
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, the country’s second-largest not-for-profit senior living and care organization, plans to exit 15 states and reduce its resident and patient count by approximately...