Nursing home officials said all residents are safe and will be temporarily evacuated during the flooding. WHITEHALL, MI — Record rainfall was recorded in the Muskegon area on Tuesday, forcing some residents of a Whitehall nursing home to evacuate due to flooding. SKLD staff posted on their Facebook page Tuesday evening that there was minor flooding in parts of the nursing home, which led to residents being relocated to other areas of the facility. Officials stressed that all residents are safe. “We will provide updates as we work diligently to repair the building and return residents to their rooms,” the…
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new york, September 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Compliancy Group has been named a Fall Leader in Healthcare Compliance Software by G2. As a leader for Fall 2024, Compliancy Group was ranked #1 in Policy Management, Audits & Risk Assessments, and BAA Management. In the Healthcare Risk Management category, Compliancy Group also ranked #1 in Templates, Education, Incident Management, and Report Generation. The Compliance Group was also recognized by: Best Relationship Momentum Leader High Performer To qualify for inclusion in the Healthcare Compliance category, a product must: Monitor, track and update changes in industry and government regulations and practices; Facilitate the…
According to the latest research from Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, more than a fifth (21%) of reported ransomware incidents in the past 12 months hit healthcare organizations, up from 18% a year ago. This was followed by manufacturing with 15% of reported attacks and technology companies with 13%, while education-related incidents are predicted to halve from 18% last year to account for 9% in 2023/24.Barracuda researchers analyzed publicly-disclosed ransomware attacks between August 2023 and July 2024, involving 37 countries and 36 different ransomware groups.The most prevalent ransomware group was the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model, with LockBit…
Donald Trump’s claim during a debate with Kamala Harris that he had a “vision plan” for reforming America’s health care system raised eyebrows and drew ridicule, as if he was simply trying to fool voters into thinking he had actually thought about the issue when he hadn’t paid any attention to it at all.It was up to Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, to flesh out those bones. What he offered was hard to digest. This is also a common story: it’s a revival of “risk pools,” isolating people with certain pre-existing conditions into their own insurance market, so that healthy…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – The final touches are being put on this year’s Norton Children’s Hospital Raffle House.Related coverage: Tickets on sale now for the 2024 Norton Children’s Home & BMW RaffleWAVE visited the home in Norton Commons on Tuesday that will be raffled off to one lucky person on Nov. 23rd.This year’s home is 3,000 square feet. It has three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. One advantage is that the home is near the Town Center.Anyone can come and see it in person starting this Saturday, September 28th. The open house will run every Saturday and Sunday…
Pharmacist and HMRI Heart and Stroke Research Fellow Joshua Bennett has spent years researching ways that pharmacists can provide meaningful support during the transition between hospital and home. “Many patients with cardiovascular disease are overwhelmed with medications and changes to their health when they are discharged from the hospital. “There may also be a need to manage comorbidities that require different medications. “Hospitals are busy environments with doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals coming and going. Some patients can get a bit overwhelmed and not be able to take things on the spot,” says Joshua. His study also looked at telehealth…
“According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), innovation in healthcare is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, especially in the digital sector. Advances in technologies such as AI, gene editing and VR are transforming disease detection and treatment, transforming the global healthcare industry,” VIR editor-in-chief Le Trong Minh said at the conference. “In Vietnam, medical innovation has improved diagnostic and treatment capabilities and promoted advances in medical research and pharmaceutical production, significantly improving the health and quality of life of millions of Vietnamese. However, to ensure innovation and sustainability in the healthcare industry, Vietnam needs to promote research and development and…
Julie Stone, vice president of strategy for Granite VNA in Concord, Laconia and Wolfeboro; Our healthcare system is under strain. This isn’t new news, but the ongoing impact on patient care is significant. As hospitals reach capacity, alternative care options for post-acute hospitalized patients face similar challenges. But have we fully considered whether home care is a viable and cost-effective option? Before the COVID-19 pandemic, our hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities faced many challenges that affected their ability to provide the right level of care to patients when and where they needed it. Even today, post-pandemic, these issues remain…
Nursing home care experienced the largest price increase of any major health care field in August, but the sector also faced a large drop in employment that month, losing 3,600 jobs. This is according to the latest Altaram Health Sector Economic Indicator (HSEI) summary for September 2024, released on Tuesday. This is the sector’s biggest employment decline since September 2021, when hiring was still declining due to pandemic-related factors, Altarum analysts said. “It remains to be seen from upcoming employment data whether this decline is an isolated event or part of a broader, longer-term trend in nursing home employment,” said…
Students receiving lessons from a teacher.Getty Images Tremendous excitement. Grand predictions. High hopes. These words describe the zeitgeist of healthcare AI today, but they also describe how many people felt about electronic health records in the 2000s and 2010s. Since then, nearly every health system and practice in the U.S. has implemented EHRs, improving care in some ways and worsening it in others. Results have been mixed, with organizations that have invested in people and systems seeing better results overall. AI is the next phase of healthcare’s decades-long digital transformation. Although deployment methods will differ, organizations adopting AI will be…