Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

Industry experts say instances of nursing homes in Ohio transferring its patients to a homeless shelter are rare, but ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News

Patients with opioid use disorder less likely to be admitted to highly rated nursing homes: study

Medicare patients with opioid use disorder are less likely to be admitted to highly rated skilled nursing home facilities, a new study finds. Investigators from Brown University conducted the study to ...
The Conversation

Profits over patients: For‑profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets

The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on July 3, 2021. Meals were served from filthy meal ...
University of California, San Francisco

How to Improve Advance Care Planning for Patients and Caregivers

In recognition of “National Healthcare Decisions Day,” the “PREPARE for Your Care” program at UC San Francisco is making it easier for clinicians to remind their patients of the importance of planning ...
MIT Technology Review

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients.

Take “ambient AI” tools, for example. Also known as AI scribes, they “listen” to conversations between doctors and patients, ...