Med Ed 101

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As a consultant pharmacist, I always try to stay on top of trends to help nursing homes stay on top of guidelines and best practices. With the help of a student, we reviewed 50 LTC facility surveys and share the findings of the most common 2024 nursing home survey deficiencies.

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STAT

MARCH 13, 2023

days, it estimated, she would be ready to leave her nursing home. An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine.

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STAT

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Doctors are trained to treat all sorts of patients — whether they’re at the clinic, the hospital or a nursing home — and respond to the unique needs of rural patients. Like Oyesiku, many graduates end up staying in the South. Read the rest…

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STAT

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The findings add to an accumulating body of literature underscoring the harm that occurs when financial investors take over health care providers — not only hospitals, but nursing homes , hospice care , and physician practices.

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STAT

OCTOBER 17, 2024

UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and CVS Health targeted denials among older adults who were requesting care in nursing homes, inpatient rehab hospitals, and long-term hospitals.

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STAT

AUGUST 31, 2023

The American Health Care Association, which lobbies on behalf of nursing homes, did not comment on the list of 10 drugs or Medicare’s negotiating power. The Federation of American Hospitals offered no statement.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

District Court of Minnesota accuses UnitedHealth and its subsidiary, NaviHealth, of using the computer algorithm to “systematically deny claims” of Medicare beneficiaries struggling to recover from debilitating illnesses in nursing homes. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested by specific groups of seriously ill patients, including those who lived in nursing homes or suffered from cognitive impairment, according to internal documents obtained by STAT.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mississippi has become the latest state to report residents infected with Candida auris, a highly contagious fungus that thrives in hospitals and nursing homes. It won’t be the last and, without dedicated effort, infections and deaths will continue to pile up. Read the rest…

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STAT

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Before the allegations of neglect, before the lawsuits, before the government investigations, the health care nonprofit InnovAge had a simple mission: Help the sickest and poorest seniors live comfortably in their communities, beyond the confines of nursing homes and hospitals. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

while three leading wholesalers supply about 90% of medicines to hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, among others. Three group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, buy drugs on behalf of most hospitals in the U.S.,

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

People who are immunocompromised and those who live in nursing homes were also not included. But the trials for the vaccines, which have been approved for adults 60 and older, included few participants 80 and older. Read the rest…

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STAT

MAY 23, 2023

At the time, the country was prioritizing high-risk people in high-risk settings, like older Americans in nursing homes. WASHINGTON — The incarcerated people at Federal Medical Center Devens should have been some of the first to receive the Covid vaccines, back when they first came out in December 2020.

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NY Times

JANUARY 21, 2021

A monoclonal antibody protected residents and staff members in facilities where the virus had appeared.

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NY Times

JANUARY 21, 2021

A monoclonal antibody protected residents and staff members in facilities where the virus had appeared.

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Pharmacy Times

JANUARY 3, 2024

The study highlights the ongoing need for health care providers to recommend respiratory illness vaccinations to increase protection among nursing home residents during the peak season of infection.

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STAT

APRIL 10, 2023

Hospitals and nursing homes are competing for nurses after strikes across the country showed an empowered cadre of nurses fed up with high provider-to-patient ratios and stagnant wages. Three years after the pandemic upended the health care workforce, hospital staffing is still a top concern for hospital administrators.

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STAT

MAY 1, 2024

” At that point, he was living in a nursing home and had debilitating symptoms: tremors, difficulty gripping with his hands, and trouble walking. “I signed off on letting them take a little piece of my brain,” he recalled. “I just [was] kind of willing to sign anything to expedite the process, so I did.”

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Integra X Files

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Many of you may be well acquainted with nursing home payment models – but a short primer can refocus us on important facts or familiarize colleagues newer to the industry. Let’s review how nursing homes get paid – and especially how that affects how pharmacies get paid for serving their residents. Areas of efficiency?

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Pharma Times

JANUARY 2, 2024

The programme is the only remote, digital delivery nursing home training programme for dementia

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Pharma Mirror

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The post How Can Nursing Homes Protect Themselves from COVID-19? Researchers have found that the elderly are particularly susceptible to the COVID-19 virus that caused the epidemic. This is because they often have weaker immune systems, so they can’t fight off a viral infection easily. This new situation puts.

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NY Times

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Diagnoses for the disorder have soared in the past decade, driven in part by a loophole in regulations. A new study shows the impact has been more severe for Black Americans.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 3, 2020

The US drugmaker is testing the antibody – called LY-CoV555 and developed in collaboration with Canadian biotech AbCellera – in a phase 3 trial to see if it can prevent the spread of the coronavirus among residents and staff in US nursing homes.

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NY Times

AUGUST 20, 2020

Researchers are testing an experimental drug to halt sudden outbreaks. The trial may bring a new type of treatment for the virus.

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Med Ed 101

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Part of a consultant pharmacist job is trying to prevent nursing home survey deficiencies. The post 2018 Consultant Pharmacy Nursing Home Survey Deficiencies appeared first on Med Ed 101. In the video above I break down some examples of deficiencies that have already happened here in 2018.

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Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There are limited data on the efficacy of boosters for preventing infection and death in nursing home residents, but the findings suggest that boosters may have significantly reduced COVID-19–associated morbidity and mortality in this population.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

People who are immunocompromised and those who live in nursing homes were also not included. But the trials for the vaccines, which have been approved for adults 60 and older, included few participants 80 and older. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NY Times

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A professor, a psychiatrist and a nurse react to a Times investigation. Also: A modern Civil War; a more confident child.

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STAT

AUGUST 17, 2023

The data offer a detailed view of how top executives are incentivized, like how stock continues to comprise most of their compensation and how that drives the wide pay disparities between those in charge and those who work on the ground, like nurses, home health aides, and others.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

JANUARY 26, 2024

The nursing home called EMS given the patient’s severe and progressive rash and the fact that the patient was feeling unwell. A day prior to presentation she developed a purple purpuric rash on her lower extremities that gradually progressed up her legs, and was present on her buttocks thighs, and lower legs. She lives alone.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

while three leading wholesalers supply about 90% of medicines to hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, among others. Three group purchasing organizations, or GPOs, buy drugs on behalf of most hospitals in the U.S.,

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NY Times

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The three-month pilot program involves just 1,000 doses of the medication in seven big cities. It’s not clear how much impact that will have as demand surges.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Failing to protect the elderly from disease has consequences beyond nursing homes.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 7, 2020

The US drugmaker is testing the antibody – called LY-CoV555 and developed in collaboration with Canadian biotech AbCellera – in a phase 3 trial to see if it can prevent the spread of the coronavirus among residents and staff in US nursing homes.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 27, 2020

BLAZE-1 is also continuing – looking at bamlanivimab alone and in combination with etesevimab (LY-CoV016) another Lilly antibody targeting SARS-CoV-2 – and the company is also running the BLAZE-2 trial of bamlanivimab as prophylaxis against COVID-19 in nursing home residents and staff.

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LifeProNow

MAY 17, 2023

These symptoms are leading causes of assisted living or nursing home placement and have been associated with accelerated disease progression.” ‘Agitation’ can include symptoms ranging from pacing or restlessness to verbal and physical aggression,” said Tiffany Farchione, M.D.,

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

American Society of Consultant Pharmacists executive director and CEO explained how staffing struggles in long-term care facilities can be an opportunity for pharmacists to expand the ways they provide support beyond immunizations alone.

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