Nursing Facility Employee Says Weekend Staff Were Underpaid and Targeted with False Advertising
A nursing home employee alleges that the managing companies of the facility have engaged in false advertising and categorical underpayment of their “Weekend Warrior”-level staff.
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Emotional Exhaustion among US Healthcare Workers before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019–2021
In this 3-year survey study with an overall sample of 107,122 responses from US healthcare workers before (2019) and twice during (2020 and 2021–2022) the COVID-19 pandemic, increases were reported…
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Minnesota Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot up a Nursing Home
A 20-year-old Stewartville man is in custody after he allegedly threatened to shoot up his 19-year-old girlfriend’s workplace, according to Olmsted County Sheriff Capt. James Schueller.
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Former Nurse Aide Sentenced for Assaulting Patient
A former nurse aide accused of assaulting a patient at a Pennsylvania skilled nursing facility was sentenced to two years’ probation on charges of simple assault and threats toward a…
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Louisiana Nursing Home Owners Seek Changes to Proposed Regulations from Hurricane Ida
Nursing home owners are pushing back on proposed changes to state regulations governing their emergency operations. Louisiana is expected to update its nursing home rules later this month, a little over…
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Unneeded Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics May Harm Pneumonia Patients
An analysis of data on patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) found that extended-spectrum antibiotic therapy was associated with increased mortality compared with standard antibiotic therapy, Japanese researchers reported in…
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Wireless ‘Smart Socks’ Alert Nurses, Reduce Hospital Falls to Zero in Ohio Hospital Study
Up to 1 million Americans across the country suffer falls while in hospitals, risking broken bones and head trauma, but an Ohio hospital reduced falls to zero in a select…
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HHS Releases Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration (Roadmap), which details policy solutions that would help to better integrate mental health…
Read More »West Virginia Man Charged with Threatening Hospital Staff
A Steubenville man was charged with assault on a healthcare provider for allegedly holding a knife to a nurse at Weirton Medical Center, where he was being treated.
Read More »Two Die after Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Manhattan Nursing Home
Two residents of a Manhattan nursing home who were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease have died after bacteria that is known to cause the disease was discovered at the facility, according…
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