Skilled Nursing News
A specific type of collaboration between SNFs and hospitals is gaining traction due to the financial benefits and quality improvements it can deliver. Known as the Post Acute Network program and focused on patients discharged to SNFs, these initiatives are prompting nursing home operators to partner more closely with hospital systems to improve care coordination. The result has been lower rehospitalization rates, shorter lengths of stay, and improved quality outcomes. Read more.
Spending Bill Would Bring National Nurse Corps RNs to Assisted Living
McKnight's Senior Living
Registered nurses who commit to work in assisted living or other long-term care communities could, for the first time, be included in a national Nurse Corps program that repays their educational loans in exchange for service, if congressional negotiations hold up. Read more.
Experimental Treatment Could Ease 'Misunderstood' Dementia Symptom
Global News
Toronto neurologist Dr. Galit Kleiner has spent nearly two decades studying a movement disorder called paratonia that causes uncontrollable muscle stiffness and pain in nearly all of her patients with advanced dementia. Her work in this area was published recently in JAMDA, outlining how a treatment could possibly move this "poorly recognized complication to a routinely and proactively managed condition." Read more.
Poll: Trust in Federal Health Agencies Dropped Sharply During Trump's First Year
The Hill
A year into the second Trump administration, trust in federal health institutions, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in particular, has declined considerably while also becoming deeply partisan, according to a new poll. Read more.
America's Doctors Just Voted for War With RFK Jr.
Politico
At the American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago earlier this month, members of the group's HOD sent a clear message to their leaders: Call out Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., even if it costs us in the pocketbook. Read more.