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Taylor Bitz

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  • More than half the nation's 16,000 nursing homes violate federal fire safety standards each year,
  • government regulations let thousands of older facilities operate without the sprinklers or smoke alarms often required in buildings used by the public.
  • "the government has routinely let fire safety regulations for nursing homes fall years out of date, even while imposing new rules on everything from the food facilities serve to the cleanliness of their bedding.
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  • more than 1,200 nursing homes purchased by large private investment groups since 2000, and more than 14,000 other homes
  • investigation reveals that poor care is still all too common, especially at nursing homes run by for-profit chains, now the dominant force in the industry.
  • 1987, Congress passed a landmark law meant to improve nursing home care for the elderly.
  • "There is no cure-all for curbing malnutrition and dehydration in the nation's nursing homes. But experts say families can help by visiting more often and choosing a nursing home carefully." (Detroit News)
  • Since they started to dot the U.S. landscape in the early 1980s, assisted-living facilities have become the best hope of America's seniors for avoiding confinement in a nursing home. Instead of a hospital environment, assisted living promised private apartments and communal dining in hotel-like settings, and some help with daily needs such as dressing and bathing.
kenzie flowers

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  • The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association sought an emergency listing in the Industrial Relations Commission on Monday after Hunter New England Local Health refused the union's request for an external review of staffing levels
  • A union spokesman said the nurses' concerns about "constant unreasonable workloads" involved nurses working through breaks, working unpaid overtime, being unable to access annual leave, and operations starting at the end of the scheduled session leading to operating theatre overruns.
  • concerns that the numbers and data management have used [to make their staffing calculations] is wrong,
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  • resulted in John Hunter Hospital budgeting for a lower nursing staff level than what is required",
  • on occasions, due to patient safety, operating theatre nurses may work through their allocated breaks,
  • Sometimes operating theatre sessions are extended to enable surgeons to complete surgery lists without disadvantaging patients
  • Any time staff are required to work beyond their rostered shift hours due to theatre running over schedule, nurses will be given the option to take time in lieu or paid overtime.
kenzie flowers

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  • Sharifi Muqaddam stated that new departments were opened in the hospital and the demands of patients have increased by 2-3 times. Therefore, the nurses were required to work additional hours which contradicts their contracts. According to law, the nurses can work an additional 80 hours, however, they had to work an additional 200 hours.
  • Nurses have held a protest in the Imam Khomeini Hospital
  • protesting the lack of medical personnel and a forced increase of their working hou
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  • Iranian hospitals face a nurse shortage, the Iranian media reported. The majority of the nurses leave the country believing that they will get higher salaries abroad.
Tori Collier

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  • International Nurses Day, annual observance held on May 12 that commemorates the birth in 1820 of Florence Nightingale, the foundational philosopher of modern nursing.
  • established in 1974 by the International Council of Nurses (ICN
  • Nightingale became an important figure in nursing in the 1850s during the Crimean War
Taylor Bitz

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  • careAbstract:Currently, 1.2 million full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) care for more than 1.5 million residents in nursing homes where 75% of resid
Tori Collier

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  • Speaking to mediapersons on Monday, Rudranath Bhattacharya, the Trinamool Congress MLA from Siliguri and chairman of the standing committee on health, said that of the 37 private nursing homes in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) area, not more than 19 or 20 have been sending timely reports to government authorities on the number of dengue cases.
  • Addressing the media crew, Bhattacharya said 145 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported from Siliguri and the adjoining areas between September 1 and 15.
  • Though all nursing home authorities in the area had been sent invites to attend Monday's meeting, those of only 29 such facilities showed up.
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  • The MLA asked the erring healthcare units to comply with the Clinical Establishment Act and send in timely reports on the number of dengue cases, failing which the state health department could move to cancel their licenses.
  • While mayor Gangotri Dutta blamed the state health department for failing to contain the spread of the disease, local Trinamool leaders put the onus on the civic body, saying it lacked the urgency to deal with the situation.
Mary Neumayer

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  • online portal designed to link people seeking in-home care for older adults to nursing students and CNAs, is helping connect caregivers and care seekers located throughout Indiana and the surrounding regions
Emily Brown

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  • 10 million people
  • $26,096 for each person
  • $9,459 for home
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  • community-based services for each older person or adult with a physical disability.
  • Little relief is in sight for states'
  • long-term care (LTC) services,
  • them continue living at hom
  • e or in community-based settings
  • sort of care generally costs
  • "A state that offers Medicaid doesn't have the option of not paying for nursing facilities under Medicaid, while they do have control over whether to pay for home/community-based services,
  • long-term care financing and senior health insurance issues
  • could be as high as $140 billion
  • $60 billion of that sum would accrue to the states.
  • 25,000 people enrolled in Minnesota Senior H
  • ealth Options (MSHO),
  • Thomas von Sternberg, MD, HealthPartners
  • variety of creative contracts,
  • 40% in premiums.
  • 8% of the market, recently announced that it will halt new sales of LTC insurance.
  • LTC expenses.
  • Medicaid to cover additional
  • approximately $50 to $75 per day.
  • "This enhanced match is actually targeted to states that are furthest behind in these areas."
  • 20 years. She is based in Eugene, Ore.
  • Maryland,
  • New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Virginia and Tennessee.
  • LTC system that is proactive.
  • 75 members.
  • MCO relies on a mix of nurses
  • social workers to develop care plans for each person.
  • plus face-to-face
  • 20,000 people enrolled
  • 3,000 served by Amerigroup.
  • Since 1999
  • 34%."
  • 1,500 patients
  • 20,000
  • 449,000.
  • 2007,
  • 36 practices, reaching
  • 24 hours
  • LTC Medicaid,
Emily Brown

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  • In 2012,
  • over age 65
  • $45,657--more
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  • average $14,452
  • pay 70% of care costs;
  • patients will rise from $203 billion this year to $1.2 trillion by 2050.
  • patients--about 96%--are on
  • 500,000 to 800,000 Alzheime
  • just two of many goals; others include more research and services across multiple federal agencies, accelerating treatment development and improving early diagnosis.
  • $71,917,
  • $26,869 per person in 2012, while the costs for those in a residential facility averaged
  • 92 PACE programs in 29 states with 29,000 enrollees, Greenwood says.
  • says.
  • PACE is a lower cost approach since providers are paid 85% of what the state would expect to pay for fee-
  • 8% are in nursing homes
  • 150 to 180 participants at each center. Some PACE programs have over 1,000
  • including San Francisco, Denver and New York City. About half of the programs operate with more than one center.
  • long-term services to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees that include healthcare,
  • care coordination, nutrition, family services and administrative support
Emily Brown

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kenzie flowers

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  • Lee, a retired nursing assistant, said she wants to continue serving on the council and stay involved in the community like she has for more than 30 years.
  • The public feels like they are shut out,
  • Ken Rollins, an emergency medical technician who served two tours in Vietnam during his seven years in the military, is running for the Position 2 seat against fellow newcomer Lonnie Willey.
Emily Brown

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