Category: Nursing Homes
PointClickCare Receives PE Investment to Expand LTC Software
PointClickCare, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) platform, received a minority strategic investment from Baltimore- and San Diego-based JMI Equity, a leading software and healthcare IT growth equity firm. With the investment, the company will continue to expand the company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product offerings and advance its market leadership through organic and inorganic growth. PointClickCare’s web-based [...]
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WSJ: Older Housing Boom Expected in China, US Operators Look for Opportunities
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the number of Chinese over 60 years old is on pace to exceed the entire population of the U.S. by 2050. The big change has caught the eye of U.S. senior-housing developers like Emeritus Corp., Life Care Services LLC, hedge-fund giant Fortress Investment Group LLC and even John C. Erickson, an [...]
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60% of Caregivers Made Errors When Sorting Medications says NW Study
More than one-third of caregivers had difficulty reading and understanding health-related information and directions, while sixty percent made errors when sorting medications into pillboxes according to a new study by Northwestern University. In a first-of-its-kind study, nearly 100 paid, non-family caregivers were recruited in the Chicago area and their health literacy levels and the health-related [...]
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Cerner Enters Nursing Home Market, Bethesda Health Starts Using Software
Cerner, a medical software provider, announced it’s moving into the skilled nursing facilities. The company announced that Bethesda Health Group, a leading senior care and services organization in St. Louis, Mo., selected Cerner’s technology for skilled nursing facilities. Realizing the growing need for healthcare information technology (HIT) in long-term care environments, this conversion marks the company’s [...]
Nursing Home Owner Fined $5.8 Million and Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
A federal Judge sentenced Jeffrey Phillips, 41, to three and a half years and prison ordered him to pay $5.8 million in restitution for not paying payroll taxes. Phillips, owned and managed nursing homes, provided nursing home staff, and provided in-home care services and failed to pay $4.7 million in payroll taxes he did not tender to [...]
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Frontline Home Health Care Worker Wages Continue to Fall says Report
A new analysis of direct care workforces shows that wages and benefits for frontline health care workers is inadequate. “The problematic quality of direct-care jobs continues to undermine America’s capacity to produce a caregiving workforce that can deliver the basic hands-on services and supports demanded by millions of elders and persons with disabilities needing assistance [...]
NY Times: More than 90% of Nursing Homes Employ Convicted Criminals
The New York Times is reporting that more than 90 percent of nursing homes employ one or more people who have been convicted of at least one crime. In addition, Federal Investigators said 5 percent of all nursing home employees have at least one criminal conviction. The report was issued by Daniel R. Levinson, inspector general [...]
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NQF Endorses 21 Measures for Comparing Nursing Homes
In an effort to improve the quality of care in nursing homes for the 1.4 million Americans who reside in facilities across the country, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 21 measures to be used to care for both long-term residents and short-stay patients. The NQF-endorsed measures will be used in the Centers for [...]
