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California Dangles Bonuses for Nursing Homes That Add Staff

02/24/2023 Personal Health

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care. Rather than limit bonuses to top-performing facilities,

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‘The Country Is Watching’: California Homeless Crisis Looms as Gov. Newsom Eyes Political Future

02/09/2023 Personal Health

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Driving through the industrial outskirts of Sacramento, a stretch of warehouses, wholesale suppliers, truck centers, and auto repair shops northeast of downtown,

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Walter named deputy chief information officer

02/03/2023 Personal Health

Amy Walter, a leader in information technology at Washington University for the past eight years, has been named associate vice chancellor and deputy chief information

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Wave of Rural Nursing Home Closures Grows Amid Staffing Crunch

01/25/2023 Personal Health

WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for

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WashU, Eisai form drug discovery collaboration

12/14/2022 Personal Health

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. Ltd., headquartered in Japan, have formed a research collaboration aimed at

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Blind to Problems: How VA’s Electronic Record System Shuts Out Visually Impaired Patients

10/20/2022 Personal Health

Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond

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‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets

09/27/2022 Personal Health

Economic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish the value of fixed incomes. Across the

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Timely Mental Health Care Is a Key Factor in Strike by Kaiser Permanente Workers

09/24/2022 Personal Health

[Editor’s note: KHN is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.] A California law that took effect in July requires health plans to offer timely follow-up appointments

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Cognitive Rehab May Help Older Adults Clear Covid-Related Brain Fog

08/05/2022 Personal Health

Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget

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Medicaid Weighs Attaching Strings to Nursing Home Payments to Improve Patient Care

06/10/2022 Personal Health

The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents

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