by Vladimire Herard | Jan 10, 2017 | CCO's Corner
Research on newer long-term illness issues, personal habits and socioeconomic trends are prompting senior care facilities to make gastrointestinal health one of its top medical concerns, healthcare providers, federal biological science investigators and medical...
by Vladimire Herard | Jan 5, 2017 | CCO's Corner
Independent pharmacies that both dispense medications and provide consulting services to long-term care facilities at the same time, present a conflict of interest and may land themselves and the facilities in trouble, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)...
by Vladimire Herard | Nov 26, 2016 | CCO's Corner, Dietary & Nutrition
A diet aimed at combatting inflammation in the body — combined with weight loss, smoking cessation and regular physical exercise — may assist patients in recovering from or avoiding the most common chronic illnesses, various government agencies and medical...
by Vladimire Herard | Nov 26, 2016 | CCO's Corner, Nursing
Medication errors, infection mismanagement, mistakes in charting or documents, lack of proper documentation and the mishandling of patient falls compose the five major rationales for negligence or malpractice lawsuits against nurses, professional trade associations,...
by Vladimire Herard | Nov 26, 2016 | CCO's Corner, Long Term Care
Long-term care consulting by pharmacists and physicians for patients and their families about the most relevant categories of care needed, the variety of healthcare services open to them and the use of prescription drugs improves the results of such decisions and...
by Vladimire Herard | Nov 26, 2016 | CCO's Corner, Geriatrics, Medicine
As more members of the Baby Boomer generation start to age and will number 70 million nationally in the year 2030 when the last of them reach 65, a decades-old shortage of geriatric physicians still looms large, threatening their prospects for senior long-term and...
