Wednesday’s Workforce Development Forum offers timely skilled nursing hiring and retention strategies
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2023
Want easy access to some of the nation’s best nursing and retention experts? Join us Wednesday, Feb. 15 for the year’s first McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum.
Also in the News for Tuesday, Feb. 14
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 14, 2023
New York drops state requirement for nursing home, hospital masks … $300,000 grant supports emergency prep efforts for Virginia nursing homes … Deaths 5 times lower with bivalent COVID booster vs....
BREAKING: New CMS ownership proposal targets private equity, REITs and related parties
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Feb 13, 2023
The Department of Health and Human Service this afternoon proposed a new nursing home ownership disclosure rule intended to make more clear ownership and management operations of facilities.
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Feb 13, 2023
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Also in the News for Monday, Feb. 13
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 13, 2023
CareTrust outlines plans for 32 facilities marked for repositioning … Montana lost 20% of its nursing homes in 2022 … Becerra sends formal notice to governors on end of PHE … Serious findings double...
With scope unknown, nursing homes brace for new schizophrenia audits
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Three weeks after federal officials announced they would begin auditing nursing homes for overuse of schizophrenia diagnoses, providers are still looking for answers about what those investigations will...
Bill would eliminate predatory staffing agency fees
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Lawmakers in Colorado are poised to prohibit agency collection of fees charged to operators who hire agency nurses full-time.
Also in the News for Friday, Feb. 10
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Wisconsin averaging one nursing home closure per month … Two convicted of fraud over lifting equipment never delivered to nursing homes … Legal saga continues in case of management firm seizing resident...
Pay good providers more to care for dementia patients, researchers urge
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 09, 2023
Policymakers should consider incentivizing nursing homes to take patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, argue the authors of a new study that finds such patients currently are more...
Also in the News for Thursday, Feb. 9
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 09, 2023
A 42-year-old county nursing home seeks first-ever tax increase … Drug for recurrent C. difficile linked to improved quality of life … More than 600 US doctors died earlier than expected early...