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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: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: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:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNZNO AND the Service and Food Workers' Union (SFWU) are in the middle of preparations for wage negotiations with major aged-care chains, with BUPA negotiations the first to get underway on June 13 and 14. NZNO's acting...
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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: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. 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:Nursing Older People (Vol. 21, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedLiving well with Dementia. A National Dementia Strategy (Department of Health (DH) 2009a), published by the DH (England) in February 2009, provides a strategic framework within which local services can: * Deliver...
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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:Policy & Practice (Vol. 63, Issue 2)Federal regulators recently approved a nursing home tax proposed by New Jersey Medicaid officials that is expected to bring $95.5 million a year in additional federal matching funds under the Medicaid program. Under the...
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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...
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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 Older People (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAn audit was undertaken designed to explore continence care in care homes. This article describes some of the issues raised. Key words Older people: nursing Care homes Continence Record keeping Education These...
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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...