Contemporary Long Term Care articles from December 2000

Contemporary Long Term Care archives from December 2000

Gone but not forgotten.
December 1, 2000... DECEMBER TYPICALLY IS A SEASON for gifts. There are the storebought gifts, the gifts of love and attention, and then there's the gift of memories. Storebought gifts are for the young. Love and attention are the gifts of the young at...

Circuit Court approves order against Beverly.
December 1, 2000... Remedial notices to be posted at all facilities THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE Seventh Circuit has approved a corporate-wide cease-and-desist order by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Beverly California Corp. The...

Fed to curb states' method of getting extra Medicaid money.
December 1, 2000... The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed rules that would close a loophole in the law that allows states to win extra federal Medicaid funding, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The financial stability of...

SAY NO TO GINKGO.
December 1, 2000... The result of a randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of ginkgo biloba special extract EGb 761 (ginkgo) suggests that ginkgo is not effective as a treatment for older people with dementia or age-associated memory impairment. These...

DIAGNOSING DEMENTIA.
December 1, 2000... The objective of another study reported in the same issue was to facilitate the diagnostic process for dementia Five guidelines and four consensus statements on specific diagnostic recommendations, specialist referral recommendations, and...

Corrections & amplifications.
December 1, 2000... In the October 2000 issue of CLTC our article, "Spotlight on: Extendicare's new CEO" (page 74), the second sentence of the second-to-last paragraph should have read: "For instance, Medicaid is welfare." We regret the error. In the eB2B...

Man's best friend just went robotic in Japan.
December 1, 2000... Poke-pet? E-fido? Call it what you will, soon the elderly in Japan will have a "pet robot" to watch over them and keep them company in anew, hi-tech nursing home to be built in Japan, according to a leading Japanese consumer electronics...

Fla. governor pulls Medicaid from 6 SNFs.
December 1, 2000... Gov. Jeb Bush pulled Medicaid funding from six Florida nursing homes recently. Three others could be next, according to reports. Bush took the unprecedented action following two years of problems with the homes, which are primarily in...

Productbuzz.
December 1, 2000... Online B2B communities target rehabilitation and long term care markets www.rehabilitation.productbuzz.com www.longtermcare.productbuzz.com Productbuzz, a provider of product-focused online business-to-business communities, will add sites...

The magic of magic.
December 1, 2000... An experienced entertainer tells how and why to get a magician AMONG THE ENTERTAINMENT THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO consider for the residents of your long term care facility is a magic show. But not just any magic show. You need to find a very...

Salvage denied claims with Medicare + Choice appeal.
December 1, 2000... ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO UNIFORM NATIONAL APPEAL PROCESS in place for managed care plans outside of Medicare, there is and has been for more than 10 years an appeal process that provides dissatisfied Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare +...

Competing for a $1.1 trillion resource.
December 1, 2000... This is Part II of a two-part series involving the significant role bome equity will play in seniors housing. Part I, which appeared in the October 2000 issue, defined the total potential. APPROXIMATELY 77 PERCENT OF THE AGE 75+ SENIORS...

Dignified departures.
December 1, 2000... Many facilities are changing the face of death for their residents, making final exits as dignified as arrivals to aid bereavement Just as quality of life in long term care facilities has changed for the better, so, too, has quality of...

Web access for senior hands.
December 1, 2000... ElderVision's Touchtown brings the Internet to LTC communities. Large graphics and touch-screen technology make e-communicating senior friendly.

Make your CPUs really stack up.
December 1, 2000... Datum Filing Systems Technical Furniture System product line offers a range of accessories that are flexible and reconfigurable to meet changing requirements.

Inventory and ordering in a scan.
December 1, 2000... McKessonHBOC's e.COMETS is an inventory management and online ordering system. Using a hand-held unit, bar coded labels are scanned, then orders can be placed over the Internet.

Software applications for the LTC industry.
December 1, 2000... MDI Technologies offers clinical and accounting software applications for the long term care industry. MDI delivers integrated Windows-based applications and supplies data management over the Internet with MDIConnect.

Easy laundry labels.
December 1, 2000... Direct Supply's hand-held laundry labeler features a proof-before-you-print LCD display and 300-character memory to store common names and phrases.

Generate service plans in a 'Wiz'.
December 1, 2000... A.L. Wizard, from A.L. Wizard LLC, is a resident management system designed specifically for ALFs. It automatically generates service plans from resident appraisals.

New from SHS.com.
December 1, 2000... SHS.com's Unison Orcas is a Web-enabled workflow system, integrates clinical, financial, and case management information into a single long term care solution.

Back to school.
December 1, 2000... Your growth lies in educating the public about LTC options A REVIEW OF ADULT CHILDREN AND their involvement in providing seniors housing and care for their relatives is a real eye-opener. Long term care facilities have incredible...