While some aging services providers last week warned that more scrutiny of healthcare consolidation and rules that seek to limit it further could create “unintended consequences,” others encouraged...
Workforce dip in May reignites nursing home worries about caregiver supply
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 10, 2024
The number of workers in skilled nursing facilities declined in May, according to federal data published Friday. That stops a months-long positive trend for the sector.
Also in the News for Monday, June 10
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 10, 2024
Legislation, lawsuits aim to block federal overtime rule … Supplier asks CMS to reconsider possibly limiting coverage of certain tissue products … Nurse managers, remote BP monitoring help stroke survivors...
3.48-hour staffing rule finalized
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services increased its hourly requirement for direct care in its final nursing home staffing rule but said it would exempt registered nurse coverage eight out of 24...
Medicare mulls coverage of skin substitutes for wounds
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
Medicare coverage of skin substitute grafts that can be used on chronic, non-healing diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers is moving closer to reality.
McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners take center stage
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
CHICAGO — A sold-out crowd celebrated the second class of McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards winners in a lively spring event that combined networking with unabashed appreciation for some of the aging services...
Inside the historic fight for more drug addiction services in nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
With drug overdoses among seniors surging to historic levels, nursing homes will undoubtedly be drawn further into the world of addiction treatment.
States getting creative to cut into nursing home survey backlogs
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
Amid nationwide concern about nursing home survey backlogs, one state is tapping into its COVID-19 funding to help jumpstart a recovery.
Also in the News for Friday, June 7
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
SNFs face ‘increased and increasingly hostile’ government scrutiny, attorneys say … 300 workers to strike at rural facility after union brings unfair labor charges … Judge grants receivership in...
‘Moment of decision’ appears near on nursing home staffing rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2024
A two-day spate of legislative action opposing the nursing home staffing mandate has some staunch supporters of the requirements feeling “very concerned” about the rule’s future.