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Applying NFPA 99 to health care facilities
The impact of applying NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code to hospitals and health care facilities, fire and life safety systems varies depending on the level of care provided.
COVID coverage for all dries up even as hospital costs rise
But the virus is not contained, even if it’s better controlled.
Caregiver lauds paramedics who can now treat palliative care patients at home
Paramedic says palliative care patients used to 'just beg' her to treat them at home, and now she can.
UHF Says Better Information, Fewer Regs, Needed to Help Patients Make Better Care Decisions
With one in five hospital patients across the nation requiring continuous medical care after discharge – a number likely to grow with the graying of the population and the burden of chronic illnesses rises – a multipronged approach is essential to helping these patients and...
Why you need long-term care insurance and tips on buying it
By By Lisa Zamosky Jun 21, 2014 | 9:00 AM Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Assn. for Long-Term Care Insurance, in his Westlake Village office. He says he advocates "what I call what he calls "a good-better-best approach to long-term care planning." (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Maria Mascone's mom had , and she spent her final six years in an assisted living facility. The cost of the facility ran about $3,000 a month. Mascone says her dad left behind…
Medically underserved West Louisville welcomes UofL Health urgent care facility
It will offer urgent, primary and specialty care services including routine exams and preventative care.
Atlanta's First Custom Contact Lens Facility Opens in Buckhead
The Atlanta Center for Precision Contact Lenses (ACPCL) opened March 13 providing patients with customized solutions for their unmet ocular needs. The facility will be the only Atlanta eye care provider to fit, design and supply specialized contact lenses for local and regional patients. Leveraging over 20 years of experience in optometry, Dr. Gavin Cohen, owner and Optometrist at Optique at West Paces, developed a facility…
Rehab Facility/Short Term Care & Nursing Home/Long Term Care
Westbury Medical Care and Rehab of Jackson exists to provide skilled, compassionate care for the elderly and disabled citizens of middle Georgia. We strive to provide the best possible care for resident patients while upholding their individual dignity, respect, independence, privacy, choice and eternal significance.
UPS adding massive Louisville facility as part of health care network upgrade
United Parcel Service Inc. is adding more capacity to handle its recent health-care investment binge — including a massive new Louisville facility, our news partner Louisville Business First reports.
State Fines Assisted Living Facility Over Bedbugs
State health-care regulators have fined a South Florida assisted living facility $1,000 for a bedbug infestation, according to state documents.
Elderly woman on medical cannabis initially denied from Toronto long-term care home
Maria Moreal was denied acceptance to a Kipling Acres, based in Etobicoke this past June. The facility cited her use of medical cannabis for her chronic pain.
Planning Ahead: Understanding the True Cost of Long-Term Care
Do you know the true cost of long-term care?Chances are, like most consumers, the financial impact of long-term care can come as a shock when the situation presents itself. And according to the National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information, there’s a 70 percent chance that you (or another family member) will be faced with that scenario sometime after age 65. But according to the Genworth study, Beyond Dollars: The True Impact of Long Term Caring, almost half of care recipients had not…
Coffee and Your Health
The positive of effects of coffee on your health
