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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 20, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedLast month the King's Fund named the successful applicants--19 NHS trusts and one prison--that will share 1 million [pounds sterling] under a new programme to improve end-of-life care. Facilities for families and...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 10, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedExperience of a Medicaid nursing home entry cohort Long-term care cost-containment policies have focused on reducing the numbers of persons entering nursing homes. To provide insight and background for such efforts,...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere is considerable interest in examining how Medicaid payment affects nursing home care. This study examines the effect of Medicaid payment methods and reimbursement rates on the delivery of rehabilitation therapy to...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe introduction of new asset/income tested charges for high care residents was the 1997-98 Commonwealth government policy response to concerns about financing residential aged care. This in-depth study of residents,...
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From:Trial (Vol. 49, Issue 4)NURSES VANESSA ABSHER and Lynda Mitchell worked at the Momence Meadows Nursing Center. During their tenure at the home, Absher and Mitchell complained to their supervisors and to the Illinois Department of Health that...
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From:Medical Law Cases - for Doctors (Vol. 7, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedLaw accepts that there can be more than one correct way of managing a patient or performing an intervention and the decision of which procedure to adopt is best left to the professional judgment of the doctor. (In this...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince January, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has been working on a programme to boost quality and safety for residents and staff in care homes, and to help staff better understand partnership working....
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 66, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will increase skilled nursing facility payment rates by 1.8 percent in FY13, which is expected to boost payments by $670 million for more than 15,000 skilled nursing...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedA residential care home formerly run by nursing home operator Southern Cross Healthcare is due to close--just weeks after being taken over by a new company following concerns over care. Rufford Court care home in...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 20) Peer-ReviewedIncreasing concern from care home nurses about working conditions has prompted the RCN to launch a survey of staffing levels and workloads. RCN head of policy Howard Catton said the survey results will provide an...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 22, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMOST SERVICES for older people living in Scotland provide good quality care but a minority is underperforming, a Care Commission review has revealed. A new grading system which scored care homes on a scale of one to...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe RCN care homes survey 2010 was undertaken to gain a snapshot of the situation in England's care homes sector, focusing on capacity, workforce, meeting residents' needs and quality of care. Registered nurses and...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 1410, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWhat do Health Minister David Cunliffe's announcements on minimum staffing levels and other changes (see Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand, September 2008, p7) in aged care really mean? At the presentation of the...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 21, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSTAFF ARE being treated poorly' and blamed by managers for mistakes because of the aggressive management style depicted in popular television programmes. That is the view of Mervyn Eastman, president of the...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 20) Peer-ReviewedCARE HOME owners last week called on the government to suspend the requirement that all staff are checked before being employed. The National Care Homes Association (NCHA) said delays in checking whether a nurse or...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedNurses and doctors are among 73 staff at a New Orleans hospital who have been called to give evidence about allegations of euthanasia during hurricane Katrina. The hurricane devastated the city on August 29. In the...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAsk the Experts is a forum in which nurse consultants working with older people debate an issue in older people's care and offer advise. This month Elizabeth Atere-Roberts, an older people's specialist nurse, Southwark...
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From:Building Design & Construction (Vol. 47, Issue 11)By Jim Haughey, Director, Research and Analytics, Reed Construction Data Healthcare construction spending will continue the steady, double-digit growth it's experienced since early 2003. Spending is forecast to rise...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 42) Peer-ReviewedNext month will see the first private prosecution by an NHS trust against a member of the public for attacking a health service worker. A court will hear evidence against the partner of a patient who attacked a...