Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When Mark Kaszirer, LNHA, gets a call from a hospital looking to place a patient who needs short-term ...

On March 22, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued revised Guidance and Survey Process for Reviewing Home Dialysis Services in a Nursing Home (Rev QSO-18-24-ESRD) to ...

As our population ages and the number of individuals with complex medical conditions increases, so does the number of people who suffer with kidney function failure: end stage kidney disease (ESRD).

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that older Americans living in nursing homes experience inability to do routine tasks after dialysis Researchers at the Stanford ...

Effective as of September 16, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) implemented a survey process for the provision of home dialysis services in long-term-care facilities (“LTC ...

October 14, 2009 — In nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), starting dialysis is linked to functional decline, according to the results of an uncontrolled study reported in the ...

When Fallon Bell was 19, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the same disease that her mother and aunt lived with. Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is when a person’s kidneys no longer ...

When Fallon Bell was only 19 years old, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the same disease that both her mother and aunt lived with. Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is when a person’s ...

Saint Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a Worcester nursing home, is adding inpatient dialysis services to its offerings. Adding dialysis at the inpatient center will better integrate ...

A change in Medicare coverage for specific medications needed during dialysis has left nursing homes and their patients receiving in-house treatment for kidney failure in a serious bind. Starting Jan.