Nurse shortages escalate hiring challenges at providers’ regional offices
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2023
Large skilled nursing chains are finding it increasingly difficult to hire and retain regional staff amid a nursing shortage and changing attitudes about work-life balance.
SNFists increase nursing home referrals, but don’t lower rehospitalizations: study
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2023
The “rapid” adoption of SNFists, or clinicians specializing in skilled nursing care, has increased Medicare referrals for facilities that use them. But it has not led to reduced rehospitalizations,...
Insurance pressures boiling over: NIC
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2023
Increasing operator expenses continue to dog nursing homes, with higher prices for liability and property insurance eating into budgets, a new survey finds.
Also in the News for Thursday, June 15
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 15, 2023
Driven largely by Medicare increase, national health spending projected to hit $7.2 trillion by 2031 … Nursing home workers protest, go on strike in MI, picket in NY and join with nursing home advocates...
AdventHealth becomes latest health system to exit skilled nursing
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 14, 2023
AdventHealth, a health system with more than 80,000 employees in at least eight states, has sold much of its skilled nursing portfolio to two new organizations.
Also in the News for Wednesday, June 14
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2023
Feds should ‘incentivize’ states to standardize LTC training requirements, help build career lattices … Amid closures, South Dakota considers removing moratorium on new nursing home beds … COVID-19...
HHS puts its ageism on display
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2023
Hey HHS, your ageism is showing. Sort of ironic, given that your department (especially your main nursing home regulatory agency) has been on a health equity tear of late.
Inflation kills another nursing home effort to upgrade infrastructure
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2023
The developers of a major nursing home project are pulling the plug for now, another victim of inflationary and regulatory pressures plaguing the sector.
Also in the News for Tuesday, June 13
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 13, 2023
Nevada to allow nursing home cameras … Grand jury declines to indict nursing home resident in deadly assault … FDA panel says new data support ‘full’ approval of Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi
State courts push back on nursing homes’ federal right to arbitrate
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 12, 2023
A spate of recent battles over arbitration agreements may force courts and lawmakers to once again tackle who can enter one on behalf of a nursing home resident — and whether they can ever be mandated...