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Over the past 17 years we’ve posed this same question to hundreds of executives. Invariably, their greatest challenges remain the same. This is what executives say weighs most heavily on their minds: how do I manage employees’ performance, what can we do to retain our talent pool, how do we keep our current customers happy and how can we increase our revenues?

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Extended Care News on the Web is a comprehensive resource for clinical information on geriatric medicine and long-term care as well as Nursing Home. We hope the articles below provide timely information for your practice.


Risk Sharing in Long-Term Care: Realistic Solution or Marketing Ploy?
Aggressive pressure ulcer prevention programs are one means of lessening the pressure ulcer litigation burden. Tempur-Medical developed a skin management system focused on preventing pressure ulcers. Does the risk-sharing approach work?



Testimonial: Wyandot County Nursing Home
Care of the Staff is as Important as Care of Residents



Turning Data into Knowledge
Using MDS Data to Know the Facility



The Bottom Line on Wandering and Elopement
Hazardous wandering and elopements are among the most costly risk exposures in long-term care. Nursing homes are the new liability targets for insurers and trial lawyers. Today, long-term care facilities are challenged on all fronts.



Urinary Incontinence and Indwelling Catheters: CMS Guidance for Long-Term Care
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The Aging of America
An impending population ?shockwave? of elder Americans magnifies the importance of better and more efficient palliative care.



September 2005
Influenza kills about 36,000 Americans and hospitalizes 200,000 each year. ? Source: Reuters Premier Adds Nurse Assist to Fall Prevention Contract Portfolio Premier, Inc. (San Diego, Calif) has awarded Nurse Assist, Inc. (Fort Worth, Tex) a new contract in its fall prevention portfolio beginning August 1, 2005.



Nursing Home Residents Rate Their Care Providers
Part One of a Three-Part Series



Embracing Technology (for Your Residents)
How about, instead, the staff reply, ? But is there something missing in all of this? The mission of our company, It?



Why Lawyers Are Still Targeting Pressure Ulcers
A picture is worth a thousand words, but in the volatile world of pressure ulcer lawsuits, a particularly gruesome picture can be worth millions of dollars?regardless of whether the ulcer was preventable.





Regulatory News
Fall Management Technology: Can a New Generation Position Monitor Assist with F-Tag 323 Compliance?
Using Medications Appropriately
Creating a Culture of Safety
Answering Skin and Wound Questions
Medicare Enhances QIO Program Oversight
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