The timing, intensity and track of the storm could still change, but right now New York City is looking to get 6 to 10 inches of snow, while north and west of the city could get more than 1 foot. The heaviest bands of snow in this storm are likely to be seen in New...
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Ohio’s nursing homes get favorable ratings
Families of nursing-home residents across the state reported overall satisfaction with the care being provided to their loved ones in 2012, according to results of a state study released yesterday. The statewide average satisfaction score of 948 facilities was about...
How to avoid legal trouble: Tips for boards of senior care businesses
Litigation or threatened litigation in the senior care space is an ever-present facet of running a senior care business. An online panel discussion addressed ways in which boards of senior care businesses can avoid, or at least manage, legal trouble. “In the face of...
Oldest Patients May Not Need Cancer Screening
Patients with a life expectancy of less than 10 years derive little benefit from screening for breast or colorectal cancer, a meta-analysis of randomized trials suggested. For every 1,000 women screened for breast cancer, almost 11 years would pass before one breast...
7,000 Pennsylvania nursing home workers negotiating new contracts
A 150-person negotiating committee representing nearly 7,000 Pennsylvania nursing home workers met on Tuesday with representatives of major operators such as Golden Living, Genesis HealthCare, Reliant Senior Care, Guardian Elder Care and Extendicare to begin working...
Nursing home takes patients back to 1950s
ROME, Ga. - One Rome nursing home is brand new, but it's got a decidedly "old school" feel about it. Everything, from the blue-green walls to the dinettes, harkens back to the 1950s and there is a good reason for that. The Harbor at Renaissance Marquis is a special...
Boomers’ Web Presence Adding New Dimension to Senior Living Marketing
When shopping for a major purchase, most people these days turn to the Internet to do research or get crowd-sourced information on the product they’re considering, and that’s becoming increasingly true for senior living boomer consumers. As the baby boomer generation...
Vitamin D No Help for Arthritic Knees
Vitamin D supplements had no impact on the pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA), researchers reported. In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D supplements also had no effect on disease progression in patients with symptomatic knee OA,...
What makes a good visit? Good staff
An excellent piece in Gawker, of all places, titled Journalism is Not Narcissism, tackles a troubling idea in media at large - how easy it is, with the subtlety of a blunt ax, to blog about one's life. In our industry, this can result in columns that take on a "look...
Citrus disease spreading across the South causing shortages
If you were counting the days until you could buy elusive, super sweet HoneyBells off the back of a refrigerated truck, you're out of luck. Grocery store customers may still find the citrus hybrid of a Dancy Tangerine and Duncan Grapefruit, but the fiery orange,...