Agemo sell-off shows Omega’s willingness to move on from troubled operators
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 04, 2022
Omega Healthcare Investors is giving less flexibility to its struggling operators as the pandemic and related staffing challenges wind on, limiting rent deferrals in favor of transitioning operators and...
Hanging by a thread, providers must stitch up those Medicaid deals
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 02, 2022
The question in Texas and plenty of other states now becomes: Will there be enough momentum for long enough to push more Medicaid rates upward?
Nursing home docs, therapists hit with CMS pay cut
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 02, 2022
Healthcare providers, including doctors and therapists who treat nursing home patients, will see a key payment factor cut by 4.4% next year.
CMS promises ‘critical’ look at nursing home ownership data
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 02, 2022
Calling work on nursing home transparency one of her agency’s “particular achievements” of the past few months, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services leader said Tuesday that providers can expect...
Whistleblowers add to nursing home COVID relief burdens
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2022
A $105 million federal lawsuit filed last week — one possibly on its way to a quick dismissal — shows the growing threats nursing home operators face in accounting for their right to collect and spend...
Federal COVID cases with major LTC implications headed for November action
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 28, 2022
Two cases that could play a pivotal role in determining how well skilled nursing providers are protected by a federal COVID shield law are headed for important federal court dates.
LTC-geared SUMMIT returns with wider appeal
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 27, 2022
The PointClickCare SUMMIT kicks off Tuesday in Las Vegas. The annual gathering has grown to reach beyond PCC users and partners, with 2022 sessions designed to focus on issues affecting a broad array of...
It’s here: Today is the final day for Pinnacle Awards entries
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 27, 2022
Today is the last day to enter the new McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards in the program’s inaugural year. Submissions will be accepted through midnight tonight (Oct. 27).
Moral injury program addresses growing evidence of COVID’s frontline impact
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 27, 2022
An expanding program aims to address the moral injury suffered by frontline nursing home and aging services staff, whose struggles with pandemic-era care delivery are being illustrated in a growing body...
Nursing homes adopting senior living sales tactics to build census. Will it work?
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 25, 2022
As staffing and occupancy pressures continue to bring some providers to the brink of closure, more appear to be borrowing a marketing tactic from their senior living peers.