As an M.D. and geriatrician, Dr. Zachary Palace is hyper aware of the importance of patient data as it relates to effective care plans and health outcomes. In his role at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, which is part of the RiverSpring Living campus in the Bronx, New York, Dr. Palace oversees care for hundreds of […]
Congestive heart failure impacts a large chunk of the nursing home population and is a particularly difficult condition to manage, often resulting in a high number of rehospitalizations. And yet while nursing home providers look to promising new solutions, the efforts to put them into widespread use are stymied by staffing problems. More than 6 […]
As the Skilled Nursing News’ CLINICAL event in Washington D.C. came to a close last month, industry experts left with staffing concerns amid labor shortages and pending legislation on minimum staffing standards. However, operators also shared optimism over their innovations in corporate and clinical practices as they continued to confront higher acuity and tighter regulation. […]
The “Super SNF” is not a new concept, but is taking on new and deeper meanings as skilled nursing facilities take on a greater variety of patients with complex clinical conditions. “The term Super SNF has been a popular term. And absolutely our hospitals, the managed care companies, they’re looking to all of us to […]
In 2014, Hebrew Home at Riverdale’s Medical Director Zachary Palace was faced with a perplexing question: By permitting residents to exercise their full rights as citizens of the state, could he put the senior care center at risk for non-compliance? At that time the Compassionate Care Act, New York’s medical cannabis law, had just been […]
While the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes may feel like a lifetime for staffers and family members, the CEO of a major non-profit provider in New York City warned that the challenges are only beginning. Daniel Reingold, chief executive of the Bronx, N.Y.-based RiverSpring Health, described the first eight weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, dating […]
A small group of nursing home residents in New York City has seen concrete improvements in pain management and other medical issues through the use of medical marijuana — and as the drug becomes legal in more jurisdictions, the SNF residents of the future may come to expect it as part of their care plans. […]
RiverSpring Health is working on New York City’s first continuing care retirement community (CCRC) as it expands beyond its Hebrew Home at Riverdale nursing facility. And CEO Daniel Reingold is optimistic about it — particularly as the skilled nursing industry convulses in a series of transformations. “It’s a dinosaur,” he told Skilled Nursing News of […]
An overwhelming majority of older Americans support the use of marijuana as directed by a doctor — despite significant barriers to medically supervised cannabis in long-term care. About 80% of adults aged 50 to 80 told a team from the University of Michigan and AARP that they either strongly or somewhat support doctor-overseen pot use, […]
Marijuana usage among the elderly has become a growing trend, as more and more states decriminalize the use of the substance — creating a delicate situation for many skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and senior living providers. To date, 29 states, including Washington, D.C., have legalized the medical use of marijuana, and California recently joined a […]
Bruce Dawson-Scully spent years in the long-term care development and operations business in Canada, first in his family business and then as an executive with Sienna Senior Living in Ontario. In 2013, when the country overhauled its medical marijuana laws to allow commercial production and sales for the first time, Dawson-Scully decided to help launch […]
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale has a reputation for being a progressive skilled nursing facility, thanks to its stance and policies regarding sexual expression. Now, it’s taking a lead role on another controversial topic: medical marijuana. A non-profit organization, the Hebrew Home is part of the RiverSpring Health campus, which includes a variety of senior […]
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