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October 3, 2018
By Kindred Healthcare
Virtual Doctor Visits Are Getting More Popular, But Questions Remain About Who Pays
Provisions within the federal budget law Congress passed this year expands the use of telemedicine, which could go mainstream within 5 to 10 years. Read more
Study: More Practices Employing Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants
According to a study reported in JAMA Internal Medicine, more practices are employing nurse practitioners or physician assistants. Read more
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August 31, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
With Room Service and More, Hospitals Borrow From Hotels
At the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital outside Detroit, patients arrive to uniformed valets and professional greeters.
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Remote Heart Monitoring Can Help Detect Emergencies
Instead of having heart monitors with noisy alarms near patients' beds in the hospital, it might be better to have off-site technicians do the heart monitoring remotely, a recent study suggests.
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August 2, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
The Night Doctor is in: Why 'Nocturnalists' Are Replacing Some
On-Call Physicians
More hospitals are hiring experienced
"nocturnalists" to improve patient safety and prevent calls to tired
on-call physicians, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Read
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June 29, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
Family Caregivers Become More Crucial as Elderly Population Grows
Strain on family caregivers is alarming many lawmakers and social-service providers.
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Antidepressants Carry Much Higher Fall Risk than Anti-psychotics, Study Finds
Nursing home residents with dementia who take antidepressants are at significantly higher risk of falls and fractures than those on anti-psychotics, new research shows.
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May 27, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
Nursing Homes Starting to Offer More Individualized Menus
On a recent Thursday, the staff at Sunny Vista Living Center in Colorado Springs bustled in the kitchen.
AHRQ Reports Continued Gains in Health Care Quality
Health care quality is improving overall, especially in hospitals, and more people have health care coverage and a usual source of medical care since the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to a new
report
by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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April 29, 2016
By Claudia Lab
AHA Issues Guide for Improving the Patient Experience through the Physical Environment
One way for hospitals to improve patient satisfaction is to focus on their physical environment, according to a new guide by the AHA's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and American Society for Healthcare Engineering.
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Hospitals Eye Community Health Workers to Cultivate Patients' Successes
Donnie Missouri, 58, doesn't have medical training. He started his health career in the linens department in Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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March 25, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
Number of Seniors Who Need Personal Care Help Increasing, CDC Says
A "significantly" increasing number of adults over age 65 need help with personal care, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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January 8, 2016
By Kindred Healthcare
At the Hospital, Better Responses to Those Beeping Alarms
In hospitals, alarms on patient-monitoring devices create a cacophony of noise day and night-beeping, pinging and ringing so often that doctors and nurses ignore them, turn them off or just stop hearing them.
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February 17, 2015
By Kindred Healthcare
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a process in which a patient breathes 100 percent oxygen at above-normal atmospheric pressure. The process increases the delivery of oxygen to the body, enhancing the body’s natural healing process.
The Hyperbaric Manager at Kindred Hospital Kansas City has seen the positive effects of HBOT on persistent wounds firsthand.
"For those who have tried other therapies with no results, they can find great benefits with hyperbaric oxygen wound therapy," she says. It can be "life-changing," she adds, when a patient no longer has to deal with a wound that wouldn't heal and was impacting his daily life.
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June 18, 2014
By Kindred Healthcare
Aphasia is a little-known language disorder that affects nearly one-third of stroke victims. It occurs when there is damage to the communications hub in the left side of the brain. While aphasia disrupts communication skills, it does not affect a person’s thinking skills.
There are many types of aphasia, but the most general categories are receptive and expressive aphasia. With receptive aphasia, the person can hear a voice or read print, but may not understand the meaning of the message. With expressive aphasia, the person knows what he or she wants to say yet has difficulty communicating it to others.
Someone with receptive aphasia may:
- Have difficulty comprehending what others say
- Have difficulty with reading comprehension
- Be unaware that they are using words incorrectly
Someone with expressive aphasia may:
- Be able to understand what others say
- Have difficulty saying what they are thinking
- Speak in a jumbled manner
- Say a word different than the one they want to say
- Have difficulty writing