QliqSOFT, provider of clinical collaboration and patient communication solutions, launched a COVID-19 vaccination assistant chatbot, partnering first with post-acute operator CPSI. The chatbot is designed...
Boren-like solution needed nationwide to address Medicaid shortfalls, expert says
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has put a glaring spotlight on the cost of delivering quality care at nursing homes and how much states are willing to pay for it, and the only true solution would be to fund facilities...
‘Unfathomable greed’: Lawmaker accuses Genesis HealthCare of misusing federal coronavirus relief...
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2021
The nation’s largest nursing home operator is on the defense after a federal lawmaker accused it of using coronavirus federal relief funds to “line the pockets of company executives.”
Threat of Medicaid block grants could be axed under Biden
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2021
Long-term care providers who opposed a federal proposal to turn the Medicaid program into a block grant system may get a solid stamp to their leanings under a new move by President Joe Biden.
Also in the News for Monday, Feb. 1
Feb 01, 2021
HHS adds more healthcare providers to list of who can administer COVID-19 vaccines … OSHA issues additional workplace guidance on COVID-19 … Advocates pressuring state to end nursing home immunity...
January/February FocusOn Briefs
Jan 31, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine priority populations vary by state, city; States should complete COVID-19 vaccinations of all LTC residents, workers by March, AHCA says; and AMDA’s new COVID-19 vaccine PowerPoint can...
Residents go ‘deer hunting’
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 31, 2021
A group of Ohio nursing home residents got a jump on deer hunting season late last year, with staff members as their (somewhat) innocent prey.
Federal watchdog stresses need for retroactive COVID-19 death and case data from nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 29, 2021
Federal health agencies are being pressured again to retroactively collect data on COVID-19 deaths and cases from nursing homes to improve the government’s response to the pandemic.
AG lambasts drastic undercounting of COVID nursing home deaths, infection control compliance
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 29, 2021
New York’s data on coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes may have been undercounted by as much as 50%, according to a state investigation that also took aim at provider compliance with infection...
Also in the News for Friday, Jan. 29
Jan 29, 2021
Biden pick for HHS secretary will conduct unannounced visits at SNFs to investigate abuse, fraud complaints under new state program … Arizona reviewing alleged provider policy that forced employees to...