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Most of the nation’s hospital and nursing homes will have to teach their employees how to find fraud and report it to the government under a new federal law. Companies which do at least $5 million a year in Medicaid business must educate all employees and officers on how to detect fraud, waste, and abuse.…

An 87 year old was admitted to Hillview Nursing and Rehab (a Missouri nursing home) after falling several times at home. The nursing home staff, aware of the falls at home, recommended the use of a lap buddy at all times when the resident was using her wheelchair. A lap buddy is soft restraint or…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600592.htmlA study out of England reveals that those who take certain heart burn medications, may have an increased risk for hip fractures… The reason, acid in the stomach allows calcium to reach the bones. No acid, calcium doesn’t do its job.I wonder though – what does one little study mean? WELL – its not one…

If legislators want to help patients make informed health care decisions, they should ensure that their state governments provide accurate, up-to-date information about doctors to the public on the Web. A report released in October by the advocacy group Public Citizen commends New Jersey for providing the most detailed information about its physicians on the…

The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a great resource on the Internet for those families and individuals who are faced with the many questions surrounding the decision to move into a nursing home. What are the options? What services are provided? How do we pay for it? These questions and…

I recently discovered the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI is a non-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. The organization was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI is a reliable source of knowledge and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The…

Police in Cincinnati, Ohio have charged three employees of the Price Hill Nursing Home with patient neglect. Police received a call around 1:45 a.m. Monday morning from a resident inside the home saying he had been left alone. Investigators checked and found the three workers had vacated their posts at the 50-bed facility. Read the…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501514.html?nav=hcmodule My friends at the Washington Post published an article this week about an antibiotic used to treat pneumonia. The side effects are so severe however, that the FDA has voted against the drug’s use for less threatening illnesses, such as bronchitis. Well – this raises an interesting point (and one we have discussed on…

The NBC Nightly News ran a story on December 11 detailing the rise in the number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease – a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. Even more alarming is the fact that, according to the…

http://www.suntimes.com/business/knowles/167526,CST-FIN-health11.article Chicago Sun Times reported yesterday, that Illinois families are paying more for healthcare, and getting less. The USA Families group compared the increase in health care costs, to increase incomes – and found that health care cost were increasing at a % rate, much higher than incomes were increasing – and, to top it…