Stabilized occupancy serves as positive momentum for industry
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 27, 2021
Increases in occupancy during the first half of 2021 point to improving market conditions across the seniors housing industry, new data from the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC)...
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Aug 27, 2021
Providers with high staff vax rates share strategies for success … Providers have ‘ethical obligation’ to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for staff, experts argue … NY adds 12,000 more COVID nursing...
CMS provides glimpse into potential vaccine mandate enforcement
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 26, 2021
Providers who fail to quickly comply with a forthcoming federal staff vaccine mandate likely won’t be stripped immediately of their Medicare and Medicaid program eligibility, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
States would get more funding to expand long-term care workforce under new proposal
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Danielle Brown
Aug 26, 2021
States and long-term care providers would receive additional funding to hire and retain workers under a new measure proposed by Democratic lawmakers.
Second J&J shot ‘significantly’ increases COVID-19 antibodies; firm heads toward approval process
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 26, 2021
A Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 booster could be made available to long-term care residents and healthcare providers, as well as the rest of the American public, after the company unveiled promising results...
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Aug 26, 2021
Investigation details federal officials’ failures at state-run nursing homes prior to deadly COVID outbreaks … Illinois nursing home fined $31K for patient fall, licensing violations … Residents...
Oklahoma town celebrates oldest living resident for 112th birthday
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Danielle Brown
Aug 25, 2021
Community members across Guthrie, OK, stopped for a moment last week to celebrate the birthday of the state’s oldest resident on record.
Medicare nursing home residents more likely to be diagnosed, hospitalized and die from COVID-19 than...
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 25, 2021
Despite nursing home residents accounting for just 2% of the Medicare population, the group is disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 when compared to community beneficiaries, according to preliminary...
Delta variant decreasing vaccine effectiveness among frontline healthcare workers, CDC study shows
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 25, 2021
Fully vaccinated frontline healthcare workers were significantly better protected from contracting COVID-19 before the delta variant emerged as the dominant strain, according to new data released by the...
NJ sees more than 100 active COVID outbreaks in nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 25, 2021
New Jersey health officials are “very concerned” after active COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes throughout the state exceeded 100 this week.