Prospective senior living residents are far more interested in use of space rather than the amount of space itself, architects in the industry are finding, with average square footage in units remaining relatively stable in the past couple years around 950 square feet...
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Senior Care Technology Round-Up: Dementia Care, Pill Management & More
Included in this edition’s round-up is another batch of senior care technologies that promote independence and support desires to safely age in place. Senior care technology innovations come from all over the world in this week’s lineup. From an Israeli Alzheimer’s...
How 4 Health Systems Rein in Supply Costs
Hospital executives know they have to get smart about the supply chain if they are to hone strategies to rein in spending. In the HealthLeaders Media Industry Survey 2013: Strategic Imperative for an Evolving Industry, 57% of respondents identified expense reduction...
Soap, ointment for all ICU patients best for fighting MRSA
Using ointment and germ-killing soap on all intensive-care unit patients proved more effective than screening patients in reducing bloodstream infections and lowering the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, according to a study published...
With Money at Risk, Hospitals Push Staff to Wash Hands
At North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world to India, where...
Health-Care Owners Shun Nursing Homes
Some of the nation's largest health-care landlords are pulling back from nursing homes on concerns they will be less profitable in an era of steep Medicare and Medicaid cuts. Health Care REIT Inc., which leases to about 250 nursing homes nationwide, and Senior Housing...
Hospital Food Service Moving in New Directions
Increasing emphasis on wellness and healthier dietary choices leads to new directions in hospital food service Restaurants across the U.S. might serve Wild Alaskan salmon with a side of wheat berries, but at Fletcher Allen Health Care, an academic medical center in...
Long-term care providers should follow hospitals in adopting EHRs
Healthcare providers have already exceeded the government's 2013 adoption goals for electronic health records, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. “We have reached a tipping point in adoption of electronic health records,” said HHS...
Technomic Sees Increasing Role for Foodservice GPOs
Recent research by Technomic shows that group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in the foodservice channel continue to grow in size, scope and influence. From 2009 to 2012, foodservice operator purchases made through GPOs significantly outpaced the broader industry...
Dispute Over Safety of Popular Blood-Pressure Drugs
The top-selling class of blood-pressure drugs is under attack from an unusual source: a senior regulator at the Food and Drug Administration. Bucking his bosses, Thomas A. Marciniak is seeking stronger warnings about the drugs known as angiotensin receptor blockers,...