Higher quality nursing homes are able to provide better care for dementia patients, but researchers indicate they are less likely to admit these patients to their facilities.
Research suggests nursing homes that overbill Medicare are often pocketing those profits, and not using them to improve care or services to residents.
Many facilities that do have medical directors fail to report enough hours to oversee resident’s medical needs and meet federal requirements.
Facilities that are operated for-profit, located in urban areas or part of a larger chain are more likely to see drops in nursing home staffing and care ratings when transferred to new owners.
Some had feared nursing homes would begin diagnosing dementia patients with mental health conditions they do not have to allow the continued use of antipsychotics to sedate residents.
Stripped of assets and saddled with debt, recently bought private equity hospitals find it harder to provide care for patients, researchers warn.
Despite nursing home staffing shortages, federal experts say they do not foresee a problem with facilities across the U.S. meeting new requirements.
C. auris infections, which are often antibiotic-resistant, result in death for about one-third of patients who contract the fungal pathogen.
CDC report indicates HMPV cases are more common than most people believe, and often go unreported because symptoms are similar to the common cold
Even though rates of dementia diagnoses dropped worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of prescribing antipsychotics to those patients increased, raising fears the drugs are being used as chemical restraints.
