Debate begins on $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers … Wings remain unopened in new Florida veterans home amid staffing shortage … Nighttime fire kills six nursing home residents in Italy
Dript IV Therapy and IVRS join forces
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
Dript IV Therapy and IVRS, two leading providers of IV hydration and nutritional supplement therapy to nursing home residents, have merged, creating the sector’s largest IV hydration and nutritional...
July/August state news
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
Texas skilled nursing providers in May got their first increase in the Medicaid base rate in 10 years, along with supplemental funding to help providers stay afloat until that new rate kicks in this September.
Too good to be true for long? Providers worry historic Medicaid increases will be one-and-done
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
As Medicaid rate negotiations continue, especially in states whose legislatures develop two-year budgets, worries are already arising about how willing state lawmakers will be to sustain increases.
A distinctive class: Fifth annual McKnight’s Women of Distinction event highlights great industry...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
Dozens of skilled nursing, senior living and home care leaders and frontline workers became in-person celebrities for a day when they were feted as the 2023 McKnight’s Women of Distinction.
Provider hit with back pay and hiring demands even after judge dismisses parts of union case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board judge has dismissed parts of an extensive case brought by a Missouri union, after leaders successfully negotiated new contracts with the owners of three involved nursing...
Also in the News for Friday, July 7
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 07, 2023
OIG publishes ‘adverse event’ toolkits … ProMedica’s Heartland Healthcare pharmacy to close … State investigating payroll problems that led nursing home staff to walk off job
States pushed to publish home care pay. Aggrieved SNF operators also want theirs made public
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 06, 2023
Major provider organizations are raising concerns about equitable post-acute care regulation, given two proposed rules that would increase transparency into states’ payment for some home- and community-based...
Judge awards unemployment benefits to nursing home assistant fired over theft
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 06, 2023
A former assistant at a nursing home and senior living facility can receive unemployment benefits, even after he was fired and charged by police for stealing jewelry from a resident.
Also in the News for Thursday, July 6
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 06, 2023
Rehab workers at two NY facilities reach tentative agreement, postponing strike … California awards licenses to controversial owner just ahead of new transparency rules … Some for-profit nursing...