Post-Acute

A California appeals court ruled July 22 that nursing home physicians and staff must consult with patients who have been found mentally incompetent, or those patient's representatives, before administering psychiatric drugs or making end-of-life decisions, according to The San Francisco…

New York health inspectors cited the Springville, N.Y.-based Jennie B. Richmond Chaffee Nursing Home for providing poor-quality care to a patient who died after being taken to an emergency room in spring 2019, according to The Buffalo News.

Patients suffer from adverse events 37.3 percent of the time during the transition from a hospital to a long-term care facility, and 70.4 percent of these events are preventable, according to a July 22 study in JAMA.

CMS proposed one rule and finalized another that aim to improve safety and quality in nursing homes.

Health officials confirmed a respiratory outbreak at a second long-term care facility in Fairfax County, Va., reports ABC affiliate WJLA.

While methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus cases have decreased steadily in Michigan-based nursing facilities from 2003 to 2016, the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, has nearly tripled, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

About 1 in 5 hospice programs participating in Medicare have had serious deficiencies that threaten patient safety, according to a two-part report released July 9 by HHS' Office of Inspector General.

Masonic Homes of Kentucky paid a patient's family $11 million in June 2019 to settle claims that one of their facilities had failed to give the patient life-saving antibiotics and then failed to report the oversight to authorities, possibly contributing…

RN staffing levels fall much lower than CMS standards in most nursing homes, according to a study published July 1 in Health Affairs.

A recent press release by LHC Group announced their new Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Tricia Nguyen, MD.