The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services brought out its equivalent of a brass band and confetti machine Tuesday to tout a new provider payment strategy. One could almost hear strains of “Happy...
Payment reform: Ready! Set! Don’t go! No, I mean go!
By
Steven Littlehale
Apr 23, 2018
Perhaps you think that the new therapy-payment bombshell (RCS-1) has turned out to be a dud. I hope to make the point that it was not.
Elders find purpose through service and community commitment
By
Jennifer Cabe and Joan Devine
Apr 20, 2018
Unfortunately, residents of care communities are rarely tapped to provide much-needed service. Perhaps we are too busy seeing the things that residents CANNOT do, and fail to see all that they CAN do!
EEOC sues PruittHealth for pregnancy discrimination
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 19, 2018
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday it is suing PruittHealth-Raleigh for refusing to accommodate the pregnancy-related work restrictions of a certified nursing assistant...
Urdzik named president and CEO of Judson Services
Apr 17, 2018
There’s a new chief executive at one aging services provider in Ohio.
HCR ManorCare strategy to exit bankruptcy gets OK; will sell 74 facilities
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 17, 2018
Six weeks after entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy, HCR ManorCare has won federal approval for its exit strategy.
Also in the News for Monday, April 16
Apr 16, 2018
NIC: First-quarter occupancy inches up in skilled nursing segment … Police: nursing home employee siphoned pills for three weeks before co-workers noticed … Man who created Dolly the cloned...
Orianna Health System’s plan to shift more than half its skilled nursing facilities to its landlord may be in trouble.
1,650 workers at nursing homes in receivership finally get paid
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2018
A court-appointed receiver has doled out paychecks to 1,650 workers at 31 nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Nebraska.
LGBT Americans worry about getting into, living in long-term care
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 09, 2018
More than 1 million Americans already over 65 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans, but many in the generation behind them worry that now widely-accepted label may still make it difficult to find...