Nursing home residents’, workers’ COVID immunity drops 80% in 6 months after shot: study … Massachusetts proposes extension of staff vaccine mandate to AL, home care and hospice … Iowa waives...
Medicare Advantage slowing COVID discharges to SNFs: report
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
A new report finds Medicare Advantage restrictions are also creating log jams in hospitals desperate to discharge patients to post-acute care and free up needed beds.
Senator demands VA answers on oversight of state-run vets’ homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs has three weeks to deliver an accounting of the inspection and quality control processes it uses to assess a network of more than 150 state-run veterans homes.
Prosecutor: Nursing home workers busted with fake COVID-19 vaccination cards
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2021
Thirteen frontline nursing home and hospital workers have been charged with buying fake COVID-19 vaccine cards from a fraud ring in New York, Manhattan’s top prosecutor said.
Also in the News for Thursday, Sept. 2
Sep 02, 2021
As public pressure grows to release more funds, HHS reorganizes to include new Provider Relief Fund bureau … Pfizer, Merck dosing patients in oral COVID-19 drug trial … Phillips moves to repair, replace...
Skilled nursing specialties are very much alive — and thriving — after COVID-19
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 01, 2021
Here’s how providers are integrating with key partners and combining clinical prowess with new technology to go after more complex patients and create census-driving powerhouses.
Learn how to adapt staffing strategies during Sept. 23 webinar
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 01, 2021
Experienced workforce professionals will share their latest take on managing labor shortages during a Sept. 23 McKnight’s webinar.
Thanks to COVID, unions are primed for an upswing
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 01, 2021
I’ve been a union member twice in my life, both times at jobs where I didn’t understand their potential power or how their work might have benefitted me.
LTC Properties will pay $3.25 million to close the door on Senior Care operations
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 01, 2021
LTC Properties announced late Tuesday it has agreed to pay Senior Care Centers and Abri Health Services $3.25 million in exchange for their help in transitioning 11 skilled nursing facilities to a new...
Worried about private equity in skilled nursing? There’s a way to stem the tide.
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 01, 2021
Some see a troubling trend growing in nursing home ownership.