CMS urges: Start reviewing, planning and tracking staff COVID vaccinations now
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Danielle Brown
Nov 08, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is calling on providers to immediately start reviewing the newly proposed healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination regulation. They also should actually begin...
$1.6 billion remains in Biden’s proposal for ‘historic’ workforce allocations
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Danielle Brown
Nov 08, 2021
Long-term care providers would get a more than $1 billion boost to help with workforce struggles under the most recent version of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act.
Omega operator fails to pay rent for three months; occupancy remains bright spot
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Danielle Brown
Nov 08, 2021
Omega Healthcare Investors working to bring its lease with Agemo back into compliance after the operator has not paid rent for the last three months.
Also in the News for Monday, Nov. 8
Nov 08, 2021
OSHA COVID-19 vaccine rule being challenged by GOP states … Grigg appointed CEO of 18 skilled nursing facilities in NY, MI … Providers applaud after Florida approves $99.5 million Medicaid funding...
Resourceless vaccine rule could have ‘disastrous’ impact on long-term care
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Danielle Brown
Nov 05, 2021
Long-term care providers fear the federal government’s interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccination for all staff at Medicare- and Medicaid-funded facilities could have dire workforce consequences...
Sabra operators eyeing vaccine mandate as workforce threat or recruiting tool
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Danielle Brown
Nov 05, 2021
While just 40% of operators running facilities in the Sabra Health Care REIT issued a self-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the company reported on Thursday that 80% of its operators’ overall workforce...
Providers want 24-hour RN staffing proposal cut from House infrastructure plan
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Danielle Brown
Nov 05, 2021
The nation’s largest nursing home association is demanding that lawmakers withdraw a proposal in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill that would require long-term care facilities to have a registered...
Also in the News for Friday, Nov. 5
Nov 05, 2021
Florida proposal would reduce providers’ nurse care requirement … Iowa nursing home COVID outbreaks top 500 … Decision on Louisiana nursing home licenses won’t happen any time soon … Use of telehealth...
BREAKING: CMS says all healthcare staff must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4
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Danielle Brown
Nov 04, 2021
Long-term care staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 under a new healthcare worker vaccination rule released early Thursday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
CDC hopes $500 million will bring nursing homes, surveyors closer
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Danielle Brown
Nov 04, 2021
Federal health leaders and long-term care stakeholders are hopeful that a new $500 million nursing home strike team program will be a collaborative partnership between providers and inspectors that reduces...