Infection control conference scheduled
The South Dakota Infection Control Conference will be held Oct. 4 and 5 at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Rapid City. The conference...
Senate passes farm bill
The Senate passed its version of the farm bill, S. 3042, by a vote of 86-11, clearing the way for a conference committee to...
Feds announce $2B health care fraud takedown
The U.S. Department of Justice announced June 28 the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts,...
Catching the “big ones” in northeastern South Dakota
The 31st Annual SDAHO Walleye Classic is history and the record books will show that Nick Fosness, administrator/CEO of Marshall County Healthcare Center Avera...
Wanted: promising practices on how to address post-acute care workforce challenges
The LeadingAge Center for Workforce Solutions is collecting stories on promising practices which have been implemented in long term care facilities and could be...
Revisions made to Immediate Imposition of Federal Remedies for skilled nursing facilities
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Centers (CMS) issued a memo June 15 to State Survey Agency Directors highlighting the final revisions to the...
New Medicare cards for South Dakotans
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started mailing new Medicare cards this week to people with Medicare who live in South Dakota,...
Study shows reducing opioids not associated with lower patient satisfaction scores
A Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 2,500 patients who used high doses of opioids for at least six months showed that reducing their opioid...
Free webinar available for Home Health PEPPER review
A free WebEx event to review the most recent Home Health Agency (HHA) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), version Q4CY17, will...
SDAHO holds discussion with HHS regional director
Members of the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organization leadership team recently participated in a discussion with Dr. Brian E. Shiozawa, Regional Director, Health...
