July 30, 2024
(NPR) – Errors in diagnosis are relatively common among older people. The reasons are many: older adults may have multiple conditions, take many medications, and illnesses can look very different in older people than they do in younger ones. Older … Read More
July 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The Biden administration set stringent new federal staffing rules. But for years, nursing homes have failed to meet the toughest standards set by states. California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island have sought to improve … Read More
July 10, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 2-3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Residents’ Experiences of Paternalism in Nursing Homes” by Anne Helene Mortensen, et al. “Ethical Issues in long-term Care Settings: Care Workers’ Lived Experiences” by Anna-Liisa … Read More
July 4, 2024
(NPR) – In hopes of easing that burden, Medicare, the federal government’s health insurance program for people 65 and over, is launching an eight-year pilot project this summer with a groundbreaking plan. The government will pay to directly support the … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Axios) – Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America’s stark shortage of health care workers. Why it matters: As burned-out nurses leave the field, many hospitals and nursing homes have sought to … Read More
June 10, 2024
(New York Times) – In long-term care facilities, residents sometimes yell at or threaten one other, lob insults, invade fellow residents’ personal or living space, rummage through others’ possessions and take them. They can swat or kick or push. Or … Read More
June 10, 2024
(Axios) – Increased attention to patients’ spiritual needs would improve U.S. public health, researchers argue in a new Health Affairs article. Why it matters: A growing body of scientific evidence shows that spiritual beliefs and practices positively affect health, but patients’ … Read More
June 7, 2024
(Axios) – Demoralized doctors and nurses are leaving the field, hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their employers. Why it matters: Dire forecasts of … Read More
May 29, 2024
(Times of Israel) – “The doctor needs to look at the patient as a person with a problem and not as a problem,” she said. Palter-Dycian is co-founder and chief operating officer of OtheReality, a virtual reality (VR) technological solution … Read More
May 15, 2024
(KFF Health News) – More than four years after covid first raged through many U.S. nursing homes, hundreds of lawsuits blaming patient deaths on negligent care have been tossed out or languished in the courts amid contentious legal battles. Even … Read More
May 14, 2024
(New York Times) – To embark on a career in medicine is like moving to a foreign country where you do not understand the customs, rituals, manners or language. Your main concern on arrival is how to fit in and … Read More
May 13, 2024
(The New Yorker) – Colleagues reportedly called Lucy Letby an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored. (Read More)
May 13, 2024
(Politico) – Hospitals want you to visit them less often. Empowered by Washington and armed with Covid-inspired health innovations, health executives are seeking to increasingly move care outside of the hospital — despite the seeming risk to their bottom line. … Read More
May 9, 2024
(Fortune) – Patients admitted to Houston Methodist hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care. The slender, battery-powered … Read More
May 9, 2024
(Axios) – As the country struggles with nursing shortages, some in the field are pushing for a federal solution: a new STEM designation. Why it matters: Classifying nursing as a STEM field would unlock millions in federal funding for recruitment … Read More
May 6, 2024
(Washington Post via MSN) – Lift-assist 911 calls from assisted living and other senior homes have spiked by 30 percent nationwide in recent years to nearly 42,000 calls a year, an analysis of fire department emergency call data by The … Read More
May 6, 2024
(Axios) – As Medicare Advantage grows bigger and bigger, there’s one area the industry and regulators haven’t figured out how to make work yet: hospice. Why it matters: The end-of-life care option is the only Medicare service that can’t be … Read More
May 3, 2024
(NPR) – Moore largely credits the Camden Coalition, a team of nurses, social workers and care coordinators for his transformation. The nonprofit organization seeks out health care’s toughest patients — people whose medical and social problems combine to land them … Read More
April 29, 2024
(Acton Institute) – Finding better answers means asking better questions. Nowhere is this truer and more consequential than with questions surrounding matters of life and death. By asking better questions about care for the terminally ill, Dame Cicely Saunders (1918–2005)—a … Read More
April 24, 2024
(Axios) – The Federal Trade Commission’s vote on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements could be a big deal for the health care workforce. Why it matters: While the agreements are often thought of as a concern for senior executives and … Read More
April 24, 2024
(MedPage Today) – Union nurses rallied against the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools they called “untested” and “unregulated” during a protest outside the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on Monday. Despite reports that health systems are investing millions … Read More
April 23, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent … Read More
April 16, 2024
(Axios) – Physician assistants have won the first round in an unusual push to rebrand themselves as physician associates. And doctors aren’t amused. Why it matters: The title change reflects PAs’ growing prominence in the health care system amid a … Read More
April 3, 2024
(Reuters) – Kenyan public hospital doctors who have been on strike since last month convened in two major cities on Tuesday to discuss their grievances against the government. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), which represents over … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Mental-health urgent-care sites are proliferating across the U.S. to treat the spiraling numbers of children and adults who need mental-health care and ease a shortage of therapists that has caused many people to wait months for … Read More
