Nursing home groups divided on proposed increase on bed tax
A proposal late in the legislative session to raise the nursing provider assessment, commonly known as the nursing home bed tax, has split the industry.
Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals
Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022. “This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered his urologist saying. Winters braced for the fight of his life. Little did he anticipate, however, that he wouldn’t be waging war only against cancer. He also […]
What Is Included in a Mental Status Examination? 5 Categories
A mental status examination is an assessment of the patient’s behavioral and cognitive functioning, which may include the following elements. A mental status examination includes: General observations made during the clinical encounter: Appearance: Body habitus Dressing/grooming Hygiene Grooming Posture General behavior: Eye contact Cooperativeness Defensiveness Irritability Shyness Relaxed Resistant Withdrawn Level of consciousness (state of […]
A new rapid assessment to promote climate-informed conservation and nature-based solutions
A new article, published as a Perspective in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, introduces a rapid assessment framework that can be used as a guide to make conservation and nature-based solutions more robust to future climate. Climate change poses risks to conservation efforts, if practitioners assume a future climate similar to the past or […]
The future of flooding in Venice: improving projections, predictions and protection in the face of expected sea level rise
A new assessment of flood risk in Venice indicates that the impact of higher emissions on relative sea level rise during this century will be critical in planning future defence infrastructure for Venice and other coastal cities, state the authors of a new special issue published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences today. The […]