Providers ‘spinning again’ — COVID cases projected to peak nationwide in October
By
Kimberly Marselas
Danielle Brown
Jul 29, 2021
Total coronavirus infections are being projected to skyrocket and peak in mid-October with an estimated 390,000 cases nationwide, according to a new national model projection.
Nursing home’s fate in the hands of tax-district voters
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 23, 2019
Public resistance to an incremental tax rate increase could spell the end of a 50-year run for a public nursing home in Missouri. Voters are being asked to approve a 21-cent increase for every $100 in...
‘Whistleblower’ owes landmark $1.1M to nursing home for groundless False Claims case
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 20, 2024
A judge has awarded a landmark $1.1 million in attorney fees to a nursing home targeted in a False Claims case found “frivolous” for its reliance on publicly available and false information.
Inflation’s up. Providers’ insurance bills are likely next
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 03, 2022
Rising commercial insurance rates combined with coverage prices that typically outpace cost-of-living increases spell almost certain upcoming hikes in providers’ liability and commercial policies, according...
COVID-19 variant fuels outbreak among nursing home residents, vaccinated or not
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2021
A previously unidentified variant of COVID-19 has infected both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents of a Kentucky nursing home, making clear that providers must remain vigilant about exposure even after...
Nursing homes find visitor COVID-19 testing back in play
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 22, 2022
Health officials in at least one major US city are once again asking nursing home visitors to take COVID tests before entering, as community transmission there has ticked dangerously high this month.
More than two-thirds of skilled nursing providers “sometimes” or “often” staff shifts without enough workers, according to a new survey by recruitment and hiring management firm OnShift. The first...
One-third of nursing homes cannot meet behavioral health needs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 09, 2019
Behavioral health needs are going unmet in as many as one-third of the nation’s nursing homes, while almost half employ staff without adequate behavioral health education.
States push CMS to repeal COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 18, 2022
A coalition of 22 states is taking a new angle in its attempts to overturn a national mandate requiring that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19: They’re simply asking federal regulators...
Nursing homes may be targeted for turning away patients being treated for opioid addiction
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 18, 2018
Federal investigators could begin cracking down on nursing facilities that refuse admission to patients being treated for opioid addiction, experts are warning.