CMS chief holds second 1-on-1 with providers as reform looms
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2022
Leaders of several nonprofit skilled nursing providers warned Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure about the potential impact of “unfunded mandates” and “counterproductive”...
Reforms could start sooner than one year, Becerra says in ‘monumental’ nursing home meeting
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
The federal government will meet or exceed a goal of implementing key nursing home reform measures within a year, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday.
Up in smoke: Providers rethinking pre-employment drug screens
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
With medical marijuana now legal in three-fourths of all states, some long-term care employers say that pre-employment testing is weeding out otherwise ideal job candidates.
Coming to a bus stop near you: Better nursing home conversations
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2022
There’s a dichotomy in the nation’s capital when it comes to treatment of caregivers who provide for the aging and the aging services system itself.
Sloan: Unthinkable for feds and states to not increase nursing home funding
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 29, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As members gathered Monday to prepare for in-person and virtual meetings with lawmakers here this week, LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan shared her disappointment that...
The McGuire Group’s Susan Grigg: Opening doors for employees and patients
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 28, 2022
For years, skilled nursing providers have pointed to career ladders as an important tool for retaining employees. But too often, moving up takes time, training or tuition money that entry-level frontline...
Homicide trial raises questions about understaffing, medication management technologies
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2022
The homicide trial of a nurse who accidentally killed a patient by providing the wrong medication is raising questions about the liability of healthcare facilities in similar cases — especially when...
To control private equity, legal experts suggest government sharpen existing tools
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2022
While the Biden administration is targeting private equity firms that invest in nursing homes for reforms, two attorneys well-versed in fraud argue that existing mechanisms could deter private equity from...
Also in the News for Friday, March 25
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 25, 2022
Wisconsin healthcare workers get new protection from threats … Hospital study confirms 7-day post-COVID exposure quarantine OK for some … LPN gets probation in death of resident for whom she failed...
Jennifer Yowler named PharMerica president
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 23, 2022
Jennifer Yowler has been named president of PharMerica Corporation.