Contemporary Long Term Care articles from September 2001

Contemporary Long Term Care archives from September 2001

Step right up.(Editorial)
September 1, 2001... BOY, THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE a good carnival sideshow, is there? Come see Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy. Come see The Wild Man of Borneo: Is he man or is he beast? Come meet Rosa and Josepha Blazek, "Siamese" twins joined at the base of the...

AHCA urges INS reforms.
September 1, 2001... Foreign staffers could bolster SNF workforce THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION (AHCA) is calling for changes in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) regulations that would allow the nation's long term care facilities to...

Avoid medical-gas mix-ups.
September 1, 2001... The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published Guidance for Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Other Health Care Facilities to alert health care personnel to the hazards of medical-gas mix-ups. This advisory is in response to several reports of...

UNDER TIlE WIRE.
September 1, 2001... Late-breaking facts TIME ARTICLE FOCUSES ON ALF HAZARDS. "Here comes the latest horror story from the ragged frontier of care for the elderly," began an article in the Aug. 13 issue of Time magazine. It went on to say that the boom in...

Lenders pulled back in Q4 2000.(financing of long-term care facilities)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Project financing declined by $14M MORE THAN $689 MILLION IN PROJECT financing for seniors housing and long term care was placed during the fourth quarter of 2000, according to the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care...

VIEW FROM THE HILL.
September 1, 2001... VIEW FROM THE HILL Bill Title H.R. 913 Domprehensive Long Term Care Act S. 24 Health Care Assurance Act H.R. 803 Medicare Modernization and Solvency Act S. 1054 Patient Abuse ...

Long term care gets Medi-Cal boost.
September 1, 2001... Long term care is one of only two Medi-Cal (California Medicaid) programs to receive a funding increase in the 200 1-2002 state budget adopted July 27 by the California legislature. The budget includes monies for a Medi-Cal rate increase that...

Bills for pills.
September 1, 2001... Bills for pills Distribution of Medicare beneficiaries by total drag expenditures, 2002 Likely eligible beneficiaries $0 15.6% $-$1,000 36.5% $1,000-$2,000 19.5%...

E-Z answers.
September 1, 2001... "E-Z Answers" is a column of e-mailed responses to a question asked of CLTC readers. There's a different question every month, which appears at the bottom of this column. This month's "E-Z Answers" is brought to you through an unrestricted...

It's out there.
September 1, 2001... Picking winners for our annual Order of Excellence in Architecture & Design contest is a lot like trying to judge the Miss America contest or decide whom to take to the Prom. Everybody looks so good.... As masochistic as it may sound,...

Design Awards 2001: 'A lot of new talent'.
September 1, 2001... Four dedicated jurors--Rob Volzer, Martha Child, Jane Rohde, and Lorraine Hiatt--shared their design expertise with Contemporary Long Term Care for a day in June, tackling the difficult job of choosing our 2001 competition winners. What...

Preventing and managing project delays.
September 1, 2001... How to help your project survive a setback It was a setback that architects, engineers, surveyors, and building owners never expected. On a lovely, oceanfront site for a hospitality project, with completed plans in place and ground broken,...

Architecture Retirement/Low-income housing.
September 1, 2001... GARDEN COURT ON DE LA VINA Santa Barbara, Calif. A low-income project for the frail elderly proudly displays a Victorian flair Unlike many low-income senior residences, this one occupies a prime downtown location in a prime...

Architecture Retirement/Continuing care retirement community.
September 1, 2001... EDGEHILL BY MARRIOTT Stamford, Conn. A warm welcome at every door It's clear upon approach to Edgehill by Marriott that one has arrived. The curb appeal is thanks to a careful blending of fieldstone and shake, of details...

Interior architecture Retirement/Continuing care retirement community.
September 1, 2001... SUMMIT AT BRIGHTON Rochester, N.Y. Uncommon touches in common areas For a difficult site in Rochester, N.Y., architects at DiMella Shaffer Associates took on a sizeable challenge: Design a continuing care retirement community...

Interior design Senior center.
September 1, 2001... ARTHUR C. NIELSEN JR. CAMPUS, NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER, Northfield, III. From warehouse to their house In the design world, before-and-after projects rarely get more interesting than warehouse conversions. And the...

Best practices.
September 1, 2001... Captivating the attention of our Judges, these projects are worthy of citation for best practices. Each project highlights the creativity of its project team in meeting its unique design challenges. At a gross construction cost of just over...

Profitability Under PPS.
September 1, 2001... Looking at both sides of the coin In January 1999, the Federal Government implemented a system that would create both a nationwide geriatric database and the Prospective Payment System (PPS) method of reimbursement for nursing home...

Financially viable senior living.
September 1, 2001... Strategies that preserve residents' assets, too WHILE THE SENIOR LIVING MARKET WILL GRADUALLY recover from slow fill-up and flattened occupancies, there are some new and innovative strategies that can be deployed to accelerate that...

CORPORATE ACCOUNTS.
September 1, 2001... Beverly to unload Florida properties for $165M Beverly Enterprises Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell 49 skilled nursing facilities and four assisted living properties in Florida to NMC of Florida LLC for $165 million in cash....