Worries mount despite new lows for nursing home COVID-19 cases, deaths
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
COVID-19 cases in U.S. nursing homes have hit their lowest mark since federal officials began tracking last May, according to a new report issued by the American Health Care Association and National Center...
Another COVID-19 suit heads into limbo over PREP Act as jurisdiction battles mount nationally
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
An Alabama nursing home hoping to fight off a wrongful death suit related to COVID-19 is one of a growing number waiting for their day court.
Governor’s team threatened nursing home licenses, fines in vaccine-ordering dust-up
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
Confusion over unclaimed COVID-19 vaccines led high-ranking New York officials to threaten penalties, license revocations and public shaming of nursing homes they may have wrongly considered at fault.
ONE DAY TO GO: Online Forum offers new COVID-19 strategies Thursday
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
Providers can learn new strategies to thrive despite the pandemic during Thursday’s 10th McKnight’s Online Forum, hosted by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and McKnight’s Senior Living.
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Mar 31, 2021
‘Pain champions’ in nursing homes spur better adoption of guidelines: study … State leaders gut proposed visitation law before passing it … Legal scholars want investigation into investigator of...
Out of ketchup and into skilled nursing
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 31, 2021
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Medical liability premiums increase by highest rate in 15 years
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 30, 2021
A national analysis finds liability premiums increased for nearly one-third of healthcare providers in 2020.
Nursing home workers laid off because of vaccine mandate see lifeline in pending state law
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 30, 2021
An attorney for 13 current and former employees of a county-owned nursing home is arguing the state’s consideration of an anti-mandate vaccination law should get his clients their jobs back.
Providers say malpractice law would encourage claimants to drag out cases
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 30, 2021
After vetoing a bill that would have allowed lawyers to collect 9% pretrial interest in medical malpractice cases, Illinois’ governor appears poised to give his blessing to a compromise version that...
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Mar 29, 2021
OIG: Medicaid Fraud Unit reviewed too many unjustified referrals, diverting resources from viable abuse investigations … Florida governor signs law extending healthcare liability protections for COVID-19...