long term care news from FierceHealthcare

> The city of San Francisco has sued McKesson Corp., arguing that the company manipulated prices on brand-name drugs. Read more...

Connecticut hospitals plan to launch an initiative shortly to prevent and control infections caused by multiple drug-resistant organisms (MDRO). The initiative, spearheaded by the Connecticut... Read more...

Sure, the healthcare industry faces some big challenges--particularly given the rising number of uninsured patients--but there's still plenty of money to be made in the healthcare business,... Read more...

As FierceHealthcare readers know, the New York state health system underwent a historic shock last year, when state health planners named a list of hospitals and nursing homes which would be required... Read more...

As we reported yesterday in FierceHealthcare, giant investment firm The Carlyle Group is... Read more...

Bowing to pressure from the Service Employees International Union, investment firm The Carlyle Group has made some written promises regarding staffing, training and investment in its Manor Care... Read more...

Massachusetts' 70 acute care hospitals have begun reporting patient fall rates by individual hospitals, making it one of the first states to disclose hospital-specific data of this kind. The... Read more...

> Wisconsin may be boosting Medicaid payments for the state's hospitals. Article > CMS has decided to withhold an inspection... Read more...

 'Hospital in a hospital' losing favor
Largely due to reimbursement changes, the days of opening "hospital within a hospital" long-term care units may be fading. Consider LifeCare, which operates 950 long-term-care beds in the U.S. LifeCare is shifting its emphasis to freestanding facilities, with only 30 percent of beds remaining within acute-care hospitals. Article

> The U.S. Department of Justice continues to scrutinize UnitedHealth's planned buyout of Sierra Health Services. Article

> A trade association is charging that CMS doesn't do enough to prevent Medicare fraud by long-term-care providers. …

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