Heather Haugen, Ph.D. By 2020, the number of Americans needing long-term care services will rise to 12 million. With this upsurge in patients in need of care, it is even more important for long-term care facilities to implement electronic medical ...

Partnering with post-acute providers may help hospitals reduce readmissions Share Tools The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service has revised its guidance on discharge planning, offering hospitals in-depth guidelines to help promote better patient ...

The physical impact of stroke is usually only too obvious to health and social care services and those working in them. However, the emotional shockwave can be as devastating. A survey of 2,700 stroke survivors and carers by the Stroke Association ...

Post-acute providers have improved across a broad range of quality measures, according to a comprehensive report released by the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. In preparing the report, analytics firm PointRight considered measures of ...

Waterlilies (1903) by Claude Monet. Courtesy The Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris Source: Supplied THE Musee Marmottan in Paris was not originally a museum of impressionism but was transformed by the bequest in 1966 of a large number of works by Claude ...

HCP, Inc. (HCP) is an US-based real estate investment trust. HCP was formerly known as Health Care Property Investors, Inc. The company is engages in acquiring, developing, managing and disposing of healthcare real estate. The company also provides ...

LOUISVILLE, KY. & SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (Kindred or the Company) (NYSE:KND) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Dignity Health to create a joint venture to expand home health ...

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Certain subsidiaries of Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. ("Sabra," the "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq:SBRA) completed the issuance of $200 million aggregate principal amount of 5.375% senior notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes"). Sabra ...

A mental health trust says it has resumed staff talks over a shake-up to its services, which could see many people made redundant. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust said it had begun a new consultation over the restructuring of its care for ...