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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:01:48 -0600
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] LTC Articles





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Northern People: Singer desires audience
Traverse City Record Eagle

He encourages nursing home or veterans
hospital activity directors to
contact him about scheduling Tex's
Country Western Show for a facility. ...

http://record-eagle.com/features/
x877132606/Northern-People-
Singer-desires-audience




88-year-old man jailed after
nursing home shooting
The Associated Press
(AP)

An 86-year-old woman was found dead
of a gunshot wound to the head
in her bed at a Southern California
nursing home Sunday, and her husband
of...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/
article/ALeqM5iYn-LqHf6Ra0rA
CauZMsxU6kPM7Q?docId=72b5d11c
34a44d23b5fe189b481a3ee2




More Problems of Sexual Misconduct
At Iowa Nursing Home
Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog
(blog)

The Ames Tribune reported last week
on new allegations of sexual misconduct
at an Ames, Iowa nursing home.
The state department charged with
inspecting the ...

http://blog.levinperconti.com/2010/11/
more_problems_of_sexual_miscon.html




Nursing Home Operator Looking to Acquisitions
Orange County Business Journal

By Vita Reed Irvine-based Sun Healthcare
Group Inc., the county's largest
nursing home company, is looking to buy
more facilities and add related
businesses ...

http://www.ocbj.com/news/2010/nov/21/
nursing-home-operator-looking-acquisitions/




A tragic end to 70 years of marriage
Los Angeles Times

Police say Roy Charles Laird, 88,
fatally shot his 86-year-old wife at a
nursing home. Their daughter says it
was a 'mercy killing. ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/
la-me--mercy-kill-20101122,0,695482.story




Canada, but worth reading...........BA




Supreme Court ruling on sexual
pre-consent could affect seniors with
dementia
Winnipeg Free Press

The man's wife is in a nursing home
with Alzheimer's — and she has no
idea who he is. So is a woman with
dementia, or indeed any kind of brain
injury that ...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/
home_family/supreme-court-ruling-on-
sexual-pre-consent-could-affect-seniors-
with-dementia-109720639.html




Family Gets $42.75 Million for Nursing Home Death
InjuryBoard.com

A Kentucky family will be awarded
$42.75 million after the death of
92-year-old Joseph Clint, a man who
died in the Harborside of Madisonville
nursing home ...

http://cherryhill.injuryboard.com/
nursing-home-and-elder-abuse/family-
gets-4275-million-for-nursing-home-
death.aspx




Lerner staff was fair to our nursing home
DesMoinesRegister.com

I could not agree more with the
Register's Nov. 15 editorial, "Dean Lerner
Is Not the Problem," on the value of an
agency leader like Lerner to
Iowans. ...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/
article/20101121/OPINION04/11210314/-1/
GETPUBLISHED03scripts/Lerner-staff-
was-fair-to-our-nursing-home




Some States Weigh Unthinkable Option:
Ending Medicaid
Wall Street Journal

Wyoming found that Medicaid accounts
for 63% of the state's nursing-home
revenue. The idea of abandoning Medicaid
as a solution is so extreme that
even ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB1000142405274870444430457562
8603406482936.html




Rescued cat is celebrity at nursing center
NewsOK.com

She soon started making visits to
my 84-year-old mother, Velma Miller, who
is a nursing home resident. Pumpkin
quickly won my mother's heart, and she
is one ...

http://newsok.com/rescued-
cat-is-celebrity-at-nursing-center/
article/3516148




Long-term care insurance worries Baby Boomers
USA Today

He had to wait 18 months until space
opened at a local Veterans Affairs
nursing home, and during that period,
the family was responsible for his
care. ...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/
insurance/2010-11-22-longtermcare22_CV_N.htm




New Hope ministry brings song to nursing homes
Maryville Daily Times

By Linda Braden Albert A ministry of
music offered by New Hope Baptist
Church has become a treasured activity
in eight area nursing homes. ...

http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/
20101121/WOMEN/311219996




Heater fire causes alarm, minor
injury at nursing Home
Republican & Herald

Tremont Fire Chief James Koppenhaver
said the fire, which was reported
about 3 pm, was quickly extinguished
by the center's nursing staff. ...

http://republicanherald.com/news/
heater-fire-causes-alarm-minor-
injury-at-nursing-home-1.1066962




A robot exhibits
bedside manners and ethics
Boston Globe

By Mark Baard I've never met anyone
who wants to end his days in a nursing
home. But for baby boomers as well as
the rest of us, the option of
“aging in ...

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/
articles/2010/11/22/a_robot_exhibits_
bedside_manners__and_ethics/




Collecting for veterans
Warren Tribune Chronicle

The Georgetown site is a licensed
nursing home providing standard and
special care for Alzheimer's and
dementia patients. In addition to
being a licensed ...

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/
content.detail/id/549892/
Collecting-for-veterans.html




Dean Learner: Friend of
care home residents
DesMoinesRegister.com

Lerner has done an outstanding job
looking out for the interests of nursing
home residents by doing thorough
inspections and levying fines for
violations. ...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/
20101121/OPINION04/11210313/-1/
GETPUBLISHED03scripts/Dean-Learner-
Friend-of-care-home-residents




Sensor Monitors Help Seniors Live
Independently and Safely
Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (blog)

Sensors monitors are now used to
track the daily activity of many nursing
home residents and senior Americans
who live on their own. ...

http://blog.levinperconti.com/2010/11/
sensor_monitors_help_seniors_l.html




Reaching the remote: Telemedicine gains ground
American Medical News

Using teleconferencing technology,
he is able to see and talk with
patients, nursing home staff and
family members. The technology
allows him to treat ...

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/
2010/11/22/prsa1122.htm




Starfire makes difference for disabled
Cincinnati.com

... 2010 Joseph Scheets is calling
bingo for six residents at St. Margaret
Hall, a Catholic nursing home in
Evanston, when a man in the back of the
room ...

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/
20101121/NEWS01/11220311/
Starfire-makes-difference-for-disabled




Preparing for nursing-home costs imperative
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

From 2009 to 2010, nursing home room
rates rose 4.6 percent to $83585 a
year, according to the Market Survey
of Long-Term Care Costs by MetLife
Insurance Co ...

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/business/s_710405.html




New contribution proposed for
Jersey's social care
BBC News

Currently the States only funds care
on a means-tested basis for those who
need to go into a residential or nursing
home, but there is no financial
help for ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
world-europe-jersey-11806841




Now I remember why he's no 'progressive'
DesMoinesRegister.com

It's deja vu all over again with Iowa
looking forward to the return of the
Terry Branstad days of nursing home
operators being considered victims of
too ...

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/
20101121/OPINION04/11210306/-1/
GETPUBLISHED03scripts/Now-I-remember-why-
he-s-no-progressive-




Burn survivor finds happiness
Norwich Bulletin

She kept searching though, and found
a job at a nursing home in Danbury,
where she stayed 25 years. Then her
mother and sister died in 2004, ...

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/carousel/
x151222820/Burn-survivor-finds-happiness





Art on Wheels comes to Brecksville Library
Plain Dealer

When her mother was staying at a
nursing home, they brought the art
supplies to her. Martin noticed there
were so many things the residents of
the nursing ...

http://www.cleveland.com/sunstarcourier/
index.ssf/2010/11/art_on_wheels_comes_
to_brecksv.html




Those golden years for New York's
seniors are a little blue as assisted
living ...
New York Daily News

Rates for a private nursing-home room
in the city also rocketed 6%, from an
average of $131765 a year to $139065
a year. When a senior in a skilled
nursing ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/
2010/11/21/2010-11-21_
got_golden_years_blues_9_rise_for_
seniors_in_assisted_living.html





Prescription for medical malpractice tort reform
Allentown Morning Call

In a recent case involving St. Luke's
Hospital, an elderly nursing home
resident was transferred to the hospital
for a colonoscopy to determine the
source ...

http://www.mcall.com/opinion/
yourview/mc-tort-reform-traub-
yv-20101121,0,6075441.story

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"Barbara Acello, RN"
<bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>




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