Medicaid’s shifting of residents from nursing facilities to home settings shown to be overrated
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2019
Elderly, dual-eligible Medicaid beneficiaries in long-term care settings aren’t more likely to be hospitalized than those receiving community-based care, even though long-term care residents tend to...
Lingering, ‘really scary’ reality of skilled nursing workforce reinforced by poll
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 16, 2023
A new skilled nursing workforce poll reveals deep and persistent hiring challenges at the nation’s nursing homes ahead of a minimum staffing rule expected to be announced by federal regulators next month.
Providers pepper CMS with schizophrenia questions; agency cautions on MDS changes
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 03, 2023
Nursing home operators are grappling with audits targeting their use of schizophrenia diagnoses, a bounty of questions made clear during a national forum Thursday.
For-profit nursing home owners rebut report that left few untarnished
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 18, 2024
A brutal takedown of private nursing home ownership published last week included both pointed and widespread attacks on the role of for-profit companies in the sector, adding to stakeholders’ fears that...
Nursing homes reimagine frontline roles, seek smoother regulatory pathways
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 22, 2023
In the wake of a historic shortage of nurses and assistants, America’s nursing homes have been forced to get creative when it comes to hiring, scheduling and retaining workers.
Adapt, or the desire for flexibility will drive workers away, providers warned in McKnight’s survey
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2023
Flexibility, already a major buzz word in the skilled nursing sector, is becoming an even more critical tool for hiring managers and building leaders in 2023, results of the latest McKnight’s Mood of...
Cogir Real Estate launches U.S. management team
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 11, 2020
Cogir Management USA has launched a new, United States-based senior housing team as an extension of its Canadian parent company. David Eskenazy has been added as the chairman of the board, while Walter...
Backlogged hospitals want back into the nursing home business — without the hassles of ownership
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Kimberly Marselas
May 08, 2024
Many hospitals and health systems that have cut back on their own skilled nursing capabilities over the last two decades are now looking to take back additional control over their post-acute processes.
Nursing home COVID deaths climb, but vaccinations move slowly upward too
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 15, 2023
Deaths of nursing home patients from COVID-19 climbed as vaccination rates hit new lows last month, according to an updated analysis by the AARP Public Policy Institute and the Scripps Gerontology Center.
More LTC injury claims come from ‘favorable’ work environments: study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 17, 2023
Long-term care facilities that created a favorable work environment actually drew more worker’s compensation claims than their peers, according to results of a new study.