Making room for dying: end of life care in nursing homes.

The Hastings Center Report;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...People are dying in nursing homes. This may sound like a clarion...have been transferred there from nursing homes just a few days earlier. Understanding that people die in nursing homes--and should die in nursing homes...

Clinton Announces Initiative to Improve Quality of Nursing Homes

U.S. Newswire;  July 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ......initiative to improve the quality of nursing homes was released today by the White...INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF NURSING HOMES July 21, 1998 Today, President...actions to improve the quality of nursing homes. These actions include: ensuring...

THE WHITE HOUSE: President Clinton announces initiative to improve the...

M2 Presswire;  July 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......initiative to improve the quality of nursing homes (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...actions to improve the quality of nursing homes. These actions include: ensuring swift and strong penalties for nursing homes failing to comply with standards...

Oregon Reconsiders Rethinks Nursing Homes as Elderly Population...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ......for designing alternatives to nursing homes, has become something of a victim...own success. The closure of 16 nursing homes in the past two years -- at the...toward a growing realization: Nursing homes play a vital role and must be...

PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCES INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF NURSING...

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  July 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ......actions to improve the quality of nursing homes. These actions include: ensuring swift and strong penalties for nursing homes failing to comply with standards...prevent bed sores. Background on Nursing Homes. About 1.6 million older Americans...

Nursing homes facing change; A report today will recommend revamping rules...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Without state help, some nursing homes may follow the dinosaurs into...good results and helping some nursing homes shrink, change roles or shut down...to help consumers choose good nursing homes, officials said. The market already...

Nursing homes finally get Clinton's attention

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 27, 1998 ;     700+ words ......deplorable conditions in some nursing homes, promising surprise inspections...new change in Medicaid so that, nursing homes say, they are reimbursed less...and even physical abuse while in nursing homes. It's also odd that his announcement...

STUDY QUESTIONS HOME EFFICIENCY: NURSING HOMES COULD CUT COSTS BY MORE...

Modern Healthcare;  October 25, 1999 ;     634 words ......new payment system has caused nursing homes to curtail services and even file...that at least by one measure, nursing homes weren't very efficient under the...Portfolio Management, found that nursing homes overall could cut costs by more...

Posting Data on Internet May Spur Improvement in Nursing Homes, Officials...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Teegardin Aug. 5--The way to improve nursing homes, the Bush administration believes...informed choices -- and to shame nursing homes into improving because they know...will take to fix the nation's nursing homes. U.S. Health and Human Services...

Nursing homes feel pinch of PPS

The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......the home health industry. Now nursing homes in Louisiana and around the nation...margins have dipped so low that some nursing homes in the state have begun screening...bad position," Gardner said of nursing homes. "They don't like turning patients...

[ Nursing homes: Consumers can use statistics to compare facilities...

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  November 13, 2002 ;     567 words ...Nursing homes: Consumers can use statistics to compare...way to assess the quality of care in nursing homes received help Tuesday in the form of...data on Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes available to the public for the first...

Nursing homes' latest hurdle: insurance rates.

Crain's Cleveland Business;  May 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Local nursing homes contending with the challenges of reduced...Alliance, a network of 25 nonprofit nursing homes in northern Ohio. They're experiencing...simply are not renewing coverage for nursing homes. Lawsuits against nursing homes for...

NURSING HOMES NEED TO ENLARGE THEIR STAFFS.(EDITORIAL)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  July 31, 2000 ;     430 words ...Are nursing homes in America so understaffed that patients...staff standards for the nation's 17,000 nursing homes, where 1.6 million Americans reside...spend the last years of their lives in nursing homes. In addition, hospital stays are shorter...

FAILING NURSING HOMES HEALTH, SAFETY VIOLATIONS CITED IN 98% IN...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer Nursing homes in Los Angeles County rank among...percent of Los Angeles County nursing homes received citations in 1999 for...serious problems in the region's nursing homes. ``Nursing homes in Los Angeles...

REPORT: N.Y.'S NURSING HOMES LOSING MONEY.(Business)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  December 24, 2002 ;     485 words ......of the state's not-for-profit nursing homes are at risk of bankruptcy because...percent of private, not-for-profit nursing homes lost money on operations in 2001...bankruptcies for not-for-profit nursing homes are not that far off, said Carl...