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STAT+: Nursing homes sue over Biden administration’s minimum staffing rule

STAT

A new federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new minimum nursing home staffing rule lays out the worst-case scenario: Hundreds of long-term care facilities forced to downsize or close, tens of thousands of vulnerable seniors displaced, and countless others waiting longer for care.

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ASCP CEO: Pharmacy Has the Opportunity to Step Up, Fill Gaps in Care in Nursing Homes With Staffing Challenges

Pharmacy Times

American Society of Consultant Pharmacists executive director and CEO explained how staffing struggles in long-term care facilities can be an opportunity for pharmacists to expand the ways they provide support beyond immunizations alone.

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FDA green lights Oxehealth vital signs monitoring software

pharmaphorum

The Oxevision system is primarily used in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where there is a clear advantage to having hands-free monitoring, and can be used for example to monitor sleep patterns or make sure that a patient hasn’t fallen out of bed, left their room or carried out self-harm.

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How Good is Donanemab for Alzheimer’s Disease?

The People's Pharmacy

Whether this will keep such patients out of nursing homes remains to be determined. That’s just one aspect of AD that people really care about! Nursing homes can be unbelievably expensive, if they will even take someone with dementia. Will it keep patients with Alzheimer’s disease out of nursing homes?

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What is Medicare Part A?

The Checkup by Singlecare

Respite care. Medicare doesn’t cover the costs of long-term care facilities such as a nursing home, including if you’re in hospice. . . $5 copay for drugs used for pain relief and symptom management. 5% of the Medicare approved amount. What’s not covered.

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Medicare’s proposal on nursing home staff is ‘insanity,’ key expert says

STAT

Some of the country’s top Medicare experts aren’t sold on a new Biden administration plan to enforce stricter staffing requirements in nursing homes.  Last month, Medicare proposed new rules that would require long-term care facilities to have an RN on site 24/7.

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Nursing Home Staffing Crisis: Ramifications for Healthcare

Omnicell

However, most people are unaware that the nursing home industry lost almost 235,000 workers—15 percent of its total workforce—during that time. Historically, nursing homes have been challenging to work in, with intense job demands and a lack of respect for their profession. during 2017-2018.