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Finding and hiring the right people to deliver quality care in an industry where the war for talent is fierce and job-hopping is common, is a primary challenge facing all long-term care providers. Increasingly, these organizations are turning to technology to give them an edge. Long-term care provider Extendicare Health Services has done just this, choosing selection and hiring solutions from Kronos® Incorporated to help attract and retain the best caregivers.

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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.”It is likely that the oppositional effects of the drugs contributed to the accelerated decline,” said Kaycee M. Sink, M.D., M.A.S., lead author.

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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.

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Seventy-nine percent of older Americans live in homes that they own, and most of them want to keep it that way for as long as possible. That’s the reality driving the surge in professional home health care, according to Dee Harrell, founder of Accordance Home Care, which has begun providing services to the Huntsville area’s aging population. “The old models for aging just don’t work any more - socially, medically or economically.

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In letters to key House and Senate committees that oversee Medicare, the American Association for Homecare has urged a delay in Round One of bidding. The letters detail severe problems related to Round One of competitive bidding and specifically issues related to due process, fairness, and patient access to care. One letter was sent yesterday to House Ways and Means Committee Chair Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-La.

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CMS on Thursday added to the Nursing Home Compare Web site a searchable database with the names of nursing homes that rank in the lowest 5% to 10% in quality based on state inspection results, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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In testimony today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) urged Congress to suspend a controversial, flawed Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment, calling it “a train wreck.

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Even though the Medicare National Coverage Determination for Mobility Related Equipment was revamped in 2005, many providers and suppliers continue to be perplexed by complex policy requirements and strict protocols for physician and clinician documentation using the algorithmic approach to qualify the appropriate level of Mobility Assistive Equipment (MAE).

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Weill Cornell Medical College has been awarded $80,000 to study the creation of a Manhattan Elder Abuse Case Coordination and Review Center (EACCRC), in collaboration with the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale and the New York City Elder Abuse Network.Funded by the Fan Fox & Leslie R.

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It’s like turning down college applicants who forget to include their SAT scores in their applications. That’s the way senior officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) described the rationale behind excluding many of the 630 bidders that were disqualified from the total of 1,005 unique companies that participated in Round One of the Medicare bidding program.

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