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...
House may consider test of assisted living for veterans next week
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Kimberly Marselas
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 05, 2024
Assisted living operators may be wary of certain attention from the federal government, but one piece of legislation that major provider groups have been advocating to be passed for years finally may be...
Assisted living’s ‘fragile’ workforce is under ‘threat’ from SNF staffing rule: NCAL leaders
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2024
Assisted living providers must brace for the impact of increased regulation, experts at the AHCA/NCAL Congressional Briefing warned Monday.
Analysis: Government’s planned pay hike insufficient for staffing mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
May 28, 2024
A proposed pay increase for nursing home operators may be one of the best in recent memory, but it won’t adequately prepare the sector for implementation of the federal staffing mandate, one of the sector’s...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics so skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation.
Long-term care leaders return to basics, employ innovation to grow direct care staff
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, senior living and skilled nursing leaders both are going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to expand their direct...
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare access to telehealth services must remain a priority, members of a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.
AHCA/NCAL’s Parkinson honors ‘real heroes’ in his own words
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2024
AHCA/NCAL President and CEO Mark Parkinson received the 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement Award on Thursday. Read his acceptance speech here.
2nd annual McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards honor veteran leaders at their peak
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
A sold-out crowd celebrated the second class of McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners Thursday night at an event that combined networking with appreciation for some of the aging services sector’s most-dedicated...
Senate hearing, OIG report target substance use disorders
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2024
Both reveal that older adults need more help than ever when it comes to getting the treatment they need to address such issues.