Florida's hospitals are spending tens of millions of dollars a year to provide ventilator-based care because nursing homes do not receive incentives to care for such patients. In just two cases, ...

State officials will ask legislators to approve an additional Medicaid payment for long-term ventilator care, keeping nursing home residents from being forced out of their beds with nowhere to go as ...

The number of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who get hooked up to breathing machines has roughly doubled in recent years even though this doesn't appear to help them live longer, a U.S.

LIVINGSTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ventilator dependent respiratory patients in three Skilled Nursing Facilities in the Western U.S. now have a better chance of going home earlier, thanks to the ...

The purpose of this PI project was to (a) define oral care policies at Summa Health System and (b) compare rates of VAP in patients on ventilators whose teeth were brushed three times a day (i.e., ...

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

Sept. 02--A north suburban father filed a federal lawsuit today against the Chicago-based parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield in an attempt to force the insurer to pay for continuous skilled ...

Post-acute care facilities must excel at weaning patients off ventilators. After all, what hospital wants to transfer a patient to a facility with mediocre weaning success rates, after its staff has ...

For the second time in a year, the state has faulted the same St. Paul nursing home for failing to respond in a timely manner to the ventilator alarm of a resident who died. According to a report made ...