A local nurse is accused of stealing drugs while working at four nursing homes in three counties, a Dayton Daily News investigation found, raising questions about how someone could repeatedly be hired ...
Long-term care pharmacies need higher brand-name drug reimbursements to subsidize their comprehensive services — exactly what ...
The former John J. Foley nursing home in Yaphank, which has sat vacant for more than a decade, will be sold next month to a Manhattan real estate company that plans to transform the five-story ...
Q: It seems as if drug diversions in nursing homes increased during the pandemic. Is this accurate? A: Simply put, it’s difficult to determine if there was actually an increase in drug diversions. The ...
And, at the University Nursing Home in the Bronx, 49 percent of the 44 residents were taking antipsychotics, including 9 percent of new residents, which is more than three times the national average.
ORWIGSBURG — A 70-year-old resident of the Orwigsburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is in Schuylkill County Prison after he admitted selling methamphetamine to another resident and the drug was ...
Hospitalization costs linked to infections per 1,000 resident-days declined from $64,651 to $55,149 due to nursing homes that participated, and increased from $55,151 to $59,327 as a result of nursing ...
It's one of the worst fears we have for our parents or for ourselves: that we, or they, will end up in a nursing home, drugged into a stupor. And that fear is not entirely unreasonable. Almost 300,000 ...
Nursing home drug provider Omnicare Inc. on Thursday said it will buy rival NeighborCare Inc. for a sweetened price of $1.55 billion in cash, creating an institutional pharmacy giant. *For more on ...
A series of hurdles prevented the facilities from shielding older people, despite the best efforts of staff. Experts are calling for reforms before the next virus arrives. By Paula Span The first ...
South Jersey nursing home execs pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars while residents suffered from chronic understaffing, a ...