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Health Care REIT, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End ResultsIncreases 2007 Dividend 3% to $2.64 Health Care REIT, Inc. Scott Estes, 419-247-2800 Mike Crabtree, 419-247-2800 Logo: http://www.hcreit.com Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE:HCN) announced today operating results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006. "This was a momentous year for Health Care REIT as a result of completing the Windrose merger," commented George L.
Business Wire - Feb 26, 2007Assisted-Living Homes: How to Do Your HomeworkPennsylvania government makes it difficult to check up on assisted-living facilities, also known here as personal-care homes. Unlike other states, it does not post complaints and violations online. But if you're considering placing a relative in one, here are some things you can do to investigate its history. Write AND call the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare for all violation reports. ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Feb 26, 2007Assisted-Living Deaths: State Oversight Failure?Pennsylvania Assisted-Living Deaths: State Oversight Failure? Since 2000, at least 55 residents of assisted-living homes across the state have died under circumstances that raise questions about whether they were cared for properly, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation that found a system of state oversight that until recently often allowed deficient operators to violate safety ...
Governing - Feb 26, 2007Healthcare Realty Trust Announces Plan to Sell Senior Living PortfolioNASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (NYSE: HR) today announced its intention to sell its portfolio of senior living assets, consisting of 62 properties and 16 mortgage investments. The Company's senior living portfolio is comprised of assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living facilities, which are operated by 15 different ...
PR Newswire - Feb 26, 2007Raymond J. Lewis: Why Ventas is making a big play for Sunrise Senior Living REITRaymond J. Lewis: Why Ventas is making a big play for Sunrise Senior Living REIT Feb 26, 2007 11:09 AM The latest chapter in the saga of Ventas Inc., which saw the Louisville-based REIT come back from the verge of bankruptcy in the late 1990s to become an active M&A player in the seniors housing realm, is the company's venture north of the border. In January, Ventas (NYSE: VTR) agreed to acquire ...
National Real Estate Investor - Feb 26, 2007Fitch Rates Catholic Health East (Pennsylvania) 2007 Bonds 'A+'; Affirms Outstanding DebtNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to Catholic Health East's (CHE) series 2007 bond issues which are expected to total $401.5 million. Please see the following list. In addition, Fitch affirms the 'A+' rating on CHE's $1.3 billion of outstanding debt that is listed below. The Rating Outlook is Stable.
Business Wire via Yahoo! - Feb 26, 2007What Homes Are Supposed to Do, and Who's Supposed to Run ThemThe Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare defines personal-care homes as residences that provide 'shelter, meals, supervision and assistance' to between four and several hundred people. The term assisted living is commonly used to describe some of these homes. Residents typically are elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to care for themselves - but not infirm enough to need a nursing home ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Feb 26, 2007Waco's Providence Health Center Goes Live with Prospective Patient Flow Manager from RadianseWaco's Providence Health Center Goes Live with Prospective Patient Flow Manager from Radianse ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patient flow bottlenecks, overcrowding and diversions are common in hospitals, jeopardizing patient care, staff satisfaction and, ultimately, hospital revenue. The award-winning Providence Health Center in Waco, Texas, now has the answer: a ground-breaking patient flow ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! - Feb 26, 2007Finding the advantages to adversityQ: I'm 75 and have been living in an assisted-living facility for nearly a year. I fell in my home, broke my pelvis and am unable to return because of all the stairs. Other than the pain of the broken pelvis, living here has been an unmitigated blessing. All the 'stuff' I had been fussing about disposing of is gone. I am in a wonderful, caring environment with nothing to worry about, and time to ...
Seattle Times - Feb 26, 2007Home health agency honoredA Burlington home health agency has been recognized as one of the Top 100 in the nation in its industry for quality care and efficiency. Advanced Home Health Care Ltd. was recently named to the 2006 Home Care Elite, an inaugural compilation of the most successful home care providers in the U.S., based on performance measures analyzed by Seattle-based health care information firm OSC Inc.
The Hawk Eye - Feb 27, 2007Oswego County Health Department Exceeds All Standards In Medicare SurveyOSWEGO, NY - The Oswego County Health Department's Certified Home Health Agency has once again exceeded all state and national standards in an extensive survey that was recently released by the federal government. The agency is also ranked among the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified home health care providers in the U.S. by OCS, Inc., a healthcare information company that reviewed quality, ...
Osego Daily News - Feb 26, 2007Hospital, Justice Department reach payment agreementFebruary 26, 2007 Moultrie - Colquitt Regional Medical Center has agreed to pay the U.S. Government $475,000 to settle fraud allegations. Joyce Dickerson, a registered nurse and director of Moultrie Home Care Services, filed a lawsuit in August 2004. She claimed Colquitt Regional Medical Center's Home Health office in Sylvester accepted Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement between 2001 and 2005 on ...
WALB 10 - Feb 27, 2007CCMH Home Care/Hospice joins National Quality CampaignCass County Memorial Hospital Home Care/Hospice has joined the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign, designed to reduce avoidable hospitalizations.Patients do better and are happier if they can remain in their homes. Being hospitalized can also create unnecessary financial and emotional burdens for patients and their families. CCMH Home Care/Hospice is working to reduce the number of ...
Atlantic News Telegraph - Feb 26, 2007Wheels turning and images snapping, medical imaging exec brings exams homeQuality Medical Imaging CEO Roger Faselt brings X-rays and ultrasounds to patients with his fleet of vehicles. He says house calls are easier on many patients than trips to the hospital. Photo by Clint Karlsen. Doctors can't treat what they can't find, Quality Medical Imaging Chief Executive Officer Roger Faselt said, and to find, they must see. A clear X-ray or ultrasound image, he said, can ...
Las Vegas Review Journal - Feb 27, 2007Health Care Spending to Double By 2016WASHINGTON--U.S. health care spending will nearly double by 2016, reaching $4.1 trillion from $2.1 trillion in 2006--and the fastest-growing sector is home health care. According to a report from CMS' National Health Statistics Group, health spending will remain relatively steady from 2007 forward with average annual growth at 6.9 percent, and by 2016, will account for 20 cents of every dollar ...
HomeCare Magazine - Feb 26, 2007Health care industry gets proactive about attracting employeesHealth care industry gets proactive about attracting employees The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area - February 23, 2007by Mikel Chavers The Business Journal Serving the Greater Triad Area Attracting and retaining highly sought after health care employees takes more than enthusiasm -- it takes a passion for training, support services and approaches that keep those professionals ...
Biz Journals - Feb 26, 2007Illinois' Largest Health Care Provider Undergoes Service Transformation with Alcatel-Lucent's OmniTouch My TeamworkPARIS, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced Oak Brook, Illinois-based Advocate Health Care has deployed Alcatel-Lucent OmniTouch My Teamwork(TM) as part of a services transformation that will help empower its staff -- both administrative and clinical -- to be more productive through real-time communication.
PR Newswire - Feb 26, 2007Insights from Healthcare ExpertsSmartphone & Pocket PC magazine's Medical Editor Dr. Ed Zabrek recently appeared on House Calls, an on-demand audio program hosted by Dr. Bill Crounse, Healthcare Industry Director for Microsoft. Crounse interviewed Dr. Zabrek, Hemang Patel of Microsoft, and Robert Quinn from Epocrates. The interview occurred on August 30, 2006. We appreciate Bill Crounse and Microsoft's permission to print ...
Pocket PC Magazine - Feb 27, 2007Seniors get lifesaving tips from the prosPELHAM - Members of the Pelham Senior Center received an advanced lesson from firefighters last week on how to save someone's life after a heart attack. For some, like Marilyn Mullen, who is a home health worker, the lesson was an opportunity to get some practice using a portable defibrillator.Read this article in full with a Plus Edition account.Click here to learn more Resources More from the ...
The Eagle-Tribune - Feb 26, 2007Siemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare Explore Collaboration to Deliver Innovative Service-Oriented Architecture to Advance Healthcare ITSiemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare Explore Collaboration to Deliver Innovative Service-Oriented Architecture to Advance Healthcare IT MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siemens Medical Solutions (www.usa.siemens.com/healthcareit) and Partners HealthCare have a long-standing research and development relationship focusing on the advancement of medical technology.
Business Wire via Yahoo! - Feb 26, 2007Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Will Pilot CapMed Portable Personal Health RecordLehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network Will Pilot CapMed Portable Personal Health Record NEWTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Personal Health Records (PHRs) are being heralded as one of the leading growth areas in health information technology today. It is therefore no surprise that Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN), recognized for innovation and repeatedly ranked as one of the ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! - Feb 26, 2007New Device Safeguards Against Medication Errors At HomePatients suffering from chronic illness such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and depression, can take six-to-nine different medications a day - oftentimes more. Skipped doses, misinterpretation or labels, or confusion over what pills to take at what time can be fatal. Larry Shusterman, DO, an internal medicine and geriatrics physician and a former pharmacist, has ...
Medical News Today - Feb 26, 2007Updated Guidelines Advise Focusing On Women's Lifetime Heart RiskUpdated Guidelines Advise Focusing On Women's Lifetime Heart Risk26 Feb 2007 Health care professionals should focus on women's lifetime heart disease risk, not just short-term risk, according to updated guidelines. The 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women - published in a special women's health issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association also include ...
Medical News Today - Feb 26, 2007Updated Guidelines Advise Focusing On Women's Lifetime Heart RiskHealth care professionals should focus on women's lifetime heart disease risk, not just short-term risk, according to updated American Heart Association guidelines. The 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women - published in a special women's health issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association also include new directions for using aspirin, hormone therapy ...
MediLexicon - Feb 26, 2007The Other DementiaDawn spoke with impeccable grammar until she reached her late 40s, when she began struggling to assemble a sentence. Her 8-year-old daughter would ask for a hug, but the once-doting mother pushed her away. A former vice president at a local bank, Dawn became unable to manage her own finances. Her spending became so irrepressible that her family had to seek court orders to prevent her from losing ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 27, 2007Vitamin D May Lower Nursing Home FallsGiving residents of nursing homes vitamin D may help reduce the number of falls, according to researchers.A study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that seniors taking a high daily dose of vitamin D experienced 72 percent fewer falls, compared to those taking a placebo.A news release said that approximately 50 percent of nursing home residents fall every year, and those who ...
FOX 5 KVVU-TV - Feb 27, 2007When to intervene tipsFeb. 27--Here are some signs to look for when deciding whether it's time to intervene with elderly loved ones, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and Dr. Eric Rodriguez, a geriatrician with the UPMC Benedum Geriatrics Center. -- Repeated injuries, bruises or bedsores tend to indicate a decreased ability to compensate, and a need for enhanced support and services.-- A negative ...
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Feb 27, 2007When should adult children intervene in Mom and Dad's care?Feb. 27--Lois Choby, of Penn Hills, knew her elderly mother, Agnes Lutty, needed help when she stopped drinking adequate fluids, started hallucinating and had a bad fall in her basement. Two years ago, Choby and her husband, Ed, moved her widowed mother in with them. Since then, the health of Lutty, now 97, is much better, Choby says; had they not intervened, her mother might have died.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Feb 27, 2007Kindred Healthcare Announces Fourth Quarter ResultsFourth Quarter Net Income from Continuing Operations - $21.5 million or $0.54 per Diluted Share Fiscal Year Net Income from Continuing Operations - $71.2 million or $1.74 per Diluted Share Fiscal 2007 Earnings Guidance Announced - EPS Range $1.50 to $1.60 per Diluted Share Includes Estimated Impact of Proposed Medicare Rule for Long- Term Acute Care Hospitals Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
Business Wire - Feb 26, 2007Medicaid unclear for N.C. counties: State assistance still undeterminedFeb. 26--As county officials across North Carolina begin to draft budgets for the next fiscal year, they face a collective uncertainty worth half a billion dollars. Counties do not know how much, if any, Medicaid relief state legislators will approve this session. Without state assistance, the N.C. Association of County Commissioners said, county governments would pay more than $517 million for ...
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. - Feb 26, 2007Medicaid Spending Growth Can Be Sustained, Study FindsPosted on February 26, 2007 print e-mail Medicaid Spending Growth Can Be Sustained, Study Finds Despite pronouncements to the contrary, expected growth in government revenues is likely to be large enough to sustain Medicaid spending increases over the next forty years, while also allowing substantial real growth in spending for other public services, a new study by the 's (KCMU) finds.
Philanthropy News Digest - Feb 27, 2007Shire Extends FOSRENOL(R) | at Hand Program to Cover Medicare Part D EnrolleesPHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -. With new reports showing almost half of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in prescription drug plans in 2006 were impacted by the Medicare Part D coverage gap known as the "donut hole," Shire is pleased to announce the launch of a new Medicare Part D component under the FOSRENOL(R)| at hand program. Through this program addition, Shire will now provide ...
PR Newswire - Feb 26, 2007New BIO Survey Counters Claims Regarding Single Source Therapies in Medicare Part DNew BIO Survey Counters Claims Regarding Single Source Therapies in Medicare Part D WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today released a study which found that Medicare Part D plans offer significant discounts on single-source therapies and provide greater access to many single-source innovative therapies not available through the Department of Veterans ...
Business Wire via Yahoo! - Feb 26, 2007Rule change threatens health-care safety netThe following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Sunday, Feb. 25: X X X Hospitals in Florida and other states with large poor and uninsured populations face a devastating loss of federal funding if a rule change proposed by Medicaid administrators is adopted. Congress should intervene to prevent a health-care disaster. Medicaid officials say the new rule will force states to increase ...
McClatchy-Tribune News Service - Feb 26, 2007Welfare rolls grow despite overhaulAP PHOTO/KEVIN RIVOLI Shannon Stanfield poses with her daughter, Maddy (left), and her son, John, at her home in Clinton, N.Y. Stanfield is a former welfare recipient who was accepted into the Access Project, a program that offers a free college education to welfare-eligible parents in central New York. About 1 in 6 Americans rely on public assistance of some kind, the most since records have ...
Pueblo Chieftain Online - Feb 26, 2007New trick for avoiding estate taxesLast summer, President Bush signed a bill that made earnings in certain college-savings accounts permanently free of federal taxes, as long as the money is used for tuition, room, board or other allowed expenses. This was great news for parents, since the tax break was scheduled to go away at the end of 2010. Now, these '529' accounts look like an even better deal for grandparents and others ...
MarketWatch - Feb 26, 2007Are You Killing Your Company?Dead Zone Businesses perish in untimely ways, many of which are largely out of an entrepreneur's control: There's too much competition. The public is no longer interested in your product or service. You're a victim of bad luck--you opened a business on the Gulf Coast a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit. Maybe a trusted employee has been cooking the books, or a family crisis is dragging you ...
MSNBC - Feb 26, 2007Rich in life, death: For Barry Kaye, insurance leads to wealthFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It's showtime for Barry Kaye. The Boca Raton, Fla., businessman, who gives seminars on life insurance, is proselytizing on how wealthy people can leave millions of dollars to their children and favorite charities. He is impossible to ignore. Kaye's baritone voice and sweeping hand gestures snap you to attention. His delivery is so intense, so energetic, it's hard to ...
South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Feb 26, 2007An adviser you can grow old with: For young people, a good financial planner can really pay offFeb. 26--If you're in your 20s, do you need a financial adviser? The financial services industry thinks so. With so much focus on baby boomers, some planners are realizing they need to tap into a younger market as their older clients move out of their wealth accumulation years and into retirement."Financial planners are looking more to build multigenerational relationships," says Mark E. ...
The Dallas Morning News - Feb 26, 2007Criminal neglect, overlooked crueltySecond of four parts Looking back on it now, Jeffrey Sees believes he was lucky to have been beaten so badly. It was his ticket into a hospital - and out of hell. 'I don't think I would have lasted much longer,' he says. 'I think they would have killed me.' Sees, a Vietnam veteran with mental-health problems, had spent two tortured months at the privately run, state-regulated Reaching Out ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Feb 26, 2007