Tag: nursing homes
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Common blood thinner Coumadin is causing deaths and injuries in nursing homes, prompting calls for more regulation
From 2011 to 2014, at least 165 nursing-home residents were hospitalized or died after errors involving blood thinner Coumadin or its generic version, warfarin, according to a ProPublica analysis of...
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The Homeplace at Midway opens, with cottages for nursing, assisted living, memory care; first ‘Green House’ facility in Ky.
By Kacie Kelly and Al Cross University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The Homeplace at Midway was formally opened Thursday, June 25, bringing to fruition a 16-year campaign...
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Louisville’s PharMerica is still a defendant in federal cases in which big drug makers have paid billions in fines
Abbott Laboratories has paid billions, and Amgen Inc. has paid millions, in fines for offering “rebates” or “kickbacks” to get pharmacy companies to increase their prescriptions of drugs in nursing...
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Senate OKs bill for review panels in medical lawsuits after lively debate between doctors, lawyers, others
This story, which was published Thursday morning, has been updated with action in the full Senate. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Senate has approved a...
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Medicare ratings for nursing homes rely heavily on self-reported data; recent inspection data are available elsewhere
Next time you look at Medicare’s ratings for nursing homes, be aware that most of the information used to make the ranking is based on self-reported data and is not...
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AARP ranks Kentucky last in the nation for long-term care and support for aging, disabled and family caregivers
Kentucky ranks last in the nation in its long-term care services and support for seniors, people with disabilities and family caregivers according to a report compiled by AARP, formerly the...
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Forum hears ideas for improving long-term care in Kentucky
People gathered at the Lexington Senior Citizens Center May 16 to discuss problems with long-term care and potential ways to improve it, at an event organized by the Nursing Home Ombudsman...
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Public forum on nursing homes set Friday at 2 in Lexington
A public forum on nursing-home care will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Lexington Senior Citizens Center on Nicholasville Road next to the University of Kentucky campus. The...
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Activist seeking stronger rules on reporting health-care infections says industry lobbyists misled legislative committee to kill bill
“Health-care industry witnesses appeared to have presented incorrect information” to the House Health and Welfare Committee in speaking March 6 against House Bill 460, which would require all health-care facilities...