Tag: long-term care
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Louisville has highest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in U.S.
Louisville has the largest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in the country. Of the 570,000 people who call Louisville home, 4,000 work in the industry and produce $28 billion...
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531 deficiencies found in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in first quarter of 2012; worst one had 29; five had none
State inspectors found 531 deficiencies in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in the first quarter of this year, with one facility accounting for 29 of them alone: Life Care Center of...
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Effort to boost oral health in nursing homes gets tangled up with industry’s attempt to insulate itself from lawsuits; both bills die
A bill to get nursing-home residents better dental services “appears to be dead after the Senate added language from another bill designed to shield the nursing-home industry from litigation,” Deborah...
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Bill passed that would require fingerprint background checks at nursing homes
The state House has approved a bill requiring long-term care facilities to run background checks using fingerprinting technology, a move that would be mostly funded by a $3 million federal...
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Death of personal-care home resident has lawmakers from his hometown talking about stricter staffing rules
The death of a missing personal-care home resident has a bipartisan pair of Kentucky lawmakers from his home town of talking about setting staffng standards for Kentucky’s personal-care homes or even...
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Inspectors found 389 deficiencies in 66 Kentucky nursing homes in last quarter of 2010
Inspectors found 389 deficiencies at 66 Kentucky nursing homes in the last three months of 2010. Ten of the nursing homes inspected had 10 or more deficiencies. Two of them,...
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Cost is one obstacle for bill that would require coroners to look into nursing home deaths
A bill that would require coroners to be called when someone dies in a nursing home may be in jeopardy. At issue is how to pay for it. Chief State...
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Musical reminder fights bed sores in nursing homes
Ten Kentucky nursing homes are using music to cue health care workers when patients with bed sores need to be moved. Laura Ungar of The Courier-Journal reports that a burst...