$15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
A $15 million grant program could kickstart a new approach to behavioral healthcare delivery in U.S. nursing homes, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.
Ditch the cash-only mentality for these ‘ready, set to go’ hiring strategies, pros advise
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
Combining pay increases with innovative benefits and a culture that rewards loyalty is a vital way to improve long-term care hiring and retention, six industry leaders said last week.
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May 17, 2022
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Stagnant Medicaid rates aren’t just putting operators faced with outsized staffing costs into the red; in some places, they may be limiting access to the very capital providers need to sustain daily...
Providers have their say in high-level talks
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2022
Providers came away from early spring meetings with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other federal health officials feeling encouraged about the government’s...
This group has a lock on aging in place
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Kimberly Marselas
May 04, 2022
There’s one rapidly aging in place population that not many pundits are thinking of in their equations. And it’s growing explosively.
While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
Amy La Fleur named SVP at Ciena
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 28, 2022
The Ciena Group – including Ciena Healthcare and Laurel Health Care Company – has hired Amy La Fleur as senior vice president of operations.
A stressed sector must find a way to stress better behavioral care
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2022
When CMS issued its new behavioral health strategy last week, the phrase “nursing home” was strangely absent from the outline. But given all the attention it has streamed on skilled nursing lately,...
iCare’s Chris Wright: Seizing on skilled nursing’s behavioral health opportunities
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2022
For more than 20 years, Chris Wright has been doing what many other nursing home operators either can’t or won’t: taking patients with behavioral health diagnoses, treating them with embedded,...