Allowing nursing home staff experiencing mild Covid symptoms to work, masked, appears to be better for resident welfare than furloughing infected workers. Missing tasks outweighed increased harm from Covid transmission in a simulated scenario, according to a study published Monday morning in JAMA Network Open. Understaffing was associated with missed tasks, resident hospitalizations and deaths, […]
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Unionization in the nursing home space may decrease staff turnover, and help employers meet proposed staffing minimums – especially in counties where most nursing homes are unionized. The presence of a union is associated with a 1.7 percentage point decrease in staff turnover, according to a study published on Friday in JAMA Network Open. This […]
Even as 60,000 nursing home and long-term care residents died from Covid in the first five months of the pandemic, antiviral treatments for the virus only reached one in five nursing home residents. These grim statistics plagued the sector despite medical guidelines calling for the prompt administering of antiviral treatments to patients that were at […]
Nursing home administrators succeeded at meeting minimum staffing standards during the pandemic, but their crisis management practices came with financial and emotional costs, suggesting that policy makers need to rethink staffing regulations and increase sources of governmental funding for more persistent labor solutions. These are the combined findings of two JAMA studies released on Tuesday. […]
Nursing homes facing an increased risk of local wildfires in the Mountain West and Pacific Northwest regions had deficiencies in emergency preparedness, while reinspection for these facilities also lagged. This is according to a new study published on Monday in JAMA Network Open. The study evaluated whether nursing homes that are at elevated risk of […]
A higher employment of physicians and advanced practitioners at nursing homes – or SNFists – isn’t associated with statistically significant changes in rehospitalization rates. Instead, facility adoption of these SNFists may represent a strategy by nursing homes to maintain rehospitalization rates as operators attempt to shift patient case mix in favor of those receiving post-acute […]
Nursing home residents suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia were more likely to get readmitted to a hospital while the cost of care associated with the group was also more expensive compared to other residents, according to a recent study. The study’s findings, released earlier this month by JAMA Network Open, call into question the fitness […]
As the Biden administration looks to establish a minimum staffing requirement for the nursing home industry as part of its reform package, evidence suggests that measuring daily staffing variation may be just as important in understanding how staffing affects care quality. That’s according to a study published in the JAMA Network Open this week looking […]
Nursing homes owned by private equity (PE) firms had COVID-19 outcomes comparable to facilities with other ownership structures, including similar staffing levels, case counts, and COVID-19 deaths — as well as deaths from any cause, according to a study published October 28 in JAMA Network Open. The study examined 11,470 nursing homes in the U.S. […]
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