“Doctors see a pressing need for new approaches to keep aging patients as healthy as possible and living independently as long as possible. This new approach comes at a time of unprecedented decline in the number of geriatricians practicing in the USA.” Click HERE to read the entire New York Times article.
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“In a front page story on Christmas Eve in the Raleigh News & Observer titled: Nursing-Home Records Closed Off; Bush Administration Changes are Sharply Criticized by Patient Advocates” attention was brought to recent changes in federal rules that prevent or severely hinder access to patient information.” Click HERE to read the entire News & Observer
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An 87-year old woman was found dead on the ground beside a loading dock at a Concord, North Carolina, nursing home, one ranked by Medicare as among the worst in the country. Click HERE to read the complete story from WNCN.com
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The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the ratings for individual homes online this morning. They included ratings for 32 nursing homes in Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham and Johnston counties. The ratings were based on health inspections, staffing and various quality measures. The poor ratings reflected such factors as high staff turnover, patients
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More than one in four North Carolina nursing homes will be judged “much below average” under a federal consumer system. Please watch our blog for updates on this developing story. Click HERE to read the complete Raleigh News & Observer front page news story, as well as the Federal Nursing Home Ratings Guide.
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“No patient wants to be cared for by a sleep-deprived resident who has put in a brutal 30-hour shift within an 80-hour workweek. There is just too much chance that that the sleep-deprived doctor’s foggy mind or clumsy coordination would cause dangerous medical errors.” Click HERE to read the full New York Times editorial
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From Anne Duvoisin, Attorney/Partner, HensonFuerst Nursing Home Practice: “45 CFR Part 2, “Testimony by Employees and the Production of Documents in Proceedings Where the United States Is Not a Party,” passed without comment by the Bush administration in its waning hours, will substantially and adversely impact nursing home residents and those that advocate on
“In a recent federal government study on the quality of care in nursing homes, 91% of all nursing homes were cited for deficient care between 2005 and 2007– the most recent years for which final data is available. Not surprisingly, deficiencies were greater in number at for-profit homes than at those operating as non-profit institutions.”
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“Pressure ulcers are increasingly common in U.S. hospitalizations. In 2006, there were 503,300 hospital stays during which pressure ulcers were noted—a 78.9 percent increase from 1993 when there were about 281,300 hospital stays related to pressure ulcers. During this same time period, the total number of hospitalizations increased by only 15 percent. Stays with a
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From Anne Duvoisin, Attorney/Partner, HensonFuerst Nursing Home Practice: “The Nursing Home Transparency Act is now pending before Congress. Blog viewers are encouraged to review the full bill via the link below, and they are strongly encouraged to contact their Congressional delegates in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives to urge this
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