JCR Releases Tool Kit To Prevent Errors In Handoff Communications
When information is missing or incorrect during a patient handoff, the consequences can be tragic. A "handoff" is the process of transferring care for a patient from one caregiver to another. The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal 2E requires organizations to create a standardized approach to handoff communications, including an opportunity to ask and respond to questions.
Louisiana Nursing Home Owners Likely To File Lawsuit Against State For Lower Medicaid Rate Increase In 2009, Health Official Says
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine on Friday said that the state likely would face a lawsuit from nursing home owners if Medicaid cuts approved by the state House are not restored, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports (Moller, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 5/24).
Medicare Bidding Program Is A Train Wreck , American Association For Homecare Tells Ways And Means Subcommittee
In testimony before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) will urge Congress to suspend a controversial, flawed Medicare bidding program for home medicalequipment, calling it "a train wreck.
Government Launches Guidance To Assist In Support For Self Care, UK
Health Minister Ivan Lewis announced the introduction of seven Common Core Principles to Support Self Care, designed to help health and social care staff support people to live independently, stay healthy and make the most of their lives by managing their conditions.
Care Home Residents Wrongly Being Denied Attendance Allowance - UK
NHFA Care Fees Advice has alerted us to increasing evidence of the DWP getting the benefit rules wrong - so people are losing out on Attendance Allowance, worth around ^Alb3, 500 per year at the higher rate. Attendance Allowance is a non-means tested benefit paid to people who have to sell their homes to self fund their care.
Functional Decline Linked To Dual Treatment Of Incontinence And Dementia
Older nursing home residents who took medications for dementia and incontinence at the same time had a 50 percent faster decline in function than those who were being treated only for dementia, according to a study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.
Costs For Elder Care Increase For Fifth Consecutive Year, Study Finds
Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year and might continue to increase as a result of an expected shortage of long-term health care workers, according to a study released on Tuesday by Genworth Financial, the.
Aggression Between Nursing-Home Residents More Common Than Widely Believed, Studies Find
When people hear about elder abuse in nursing homes, they usually think of staff members victimizing residents. However, research by Cornell University faculty members suggests that a more prevalent and serious problem may be aggression and violence that occurs between residents themselves.
Smoothing TheTransition From Care Of Pediatric Disease To Adult Care
Growing pains can mean one thing for a typical adolescent and quite another to an older teen with cerebral palsy attempting independence in an adult world. A unique program, the Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood (CYACC) is helping these youths spread their wings and live more independently.
The Gerontological Society Of America Announces 2008 Hartford Faculty Scholars
Ten outstanding geriatric social work faculty members have been chosen as the newest inductees into the Hartford Faculty Scholars Program, a venture funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr.