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12:58 PM, Dec. 28, 2011 | Comments A A By Jennifer Hewlett, Lexington Herald-Leader USA Today nation LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTW)
During lunchtime at Mayfair Manor, Jack Sanders makes his way around the nursing home's dining hall, placing bibs on tables or around people's necks and giving each diner a squirt of hand sanitizer. It's a daily routine for him." I think washing hands has helped keep down communicable diseases," Sanders said. If a resident in a wheelchair needs to be pushed back…
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Detroit Free Press Medical Writer
Virginia Everett, 85, had something that many other nursing home residents don’t: a daughter and grandchildren who lived nearby and dropped in frequently. “I love ‘em,” she said of her visitors.
And that, experts say, is immeasurably more important than polished lobbies, state-of-the-art whirlpool tubs and, in some cases, even a…
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Nursing homes that care for the sickest of patients should have been paid more this year under a new Medicaid reimbursement formula. But because of state budget cuts,…
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Washington, DC – A lump of coal is what nursing facility providers should expect this Christmas from Medicaid, according to a new…
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For years, the donated piano sat upright and unused in a corner of the nursing home’s cafeteria. Now and then someone would wheel or wobble over to pound out broken notes on the broken keys, but those out-of-tune interludes were rare. Day after surrendering day, the flawed piano remained mercifully silent.
Then came a new resident, a musician in his 80s with a touch of forgetfulness named Boyd…
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