Creating ‘fixers’ for a new generation of nursing home leadership
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 07, 2023
Indiana’s largest skilled nursing operator is developing a new program to advance leaders across the organization’s footprint, focusing on soft skills and people management techniques that are necessary...
NLRB backs decision clearing nursing home on firings
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 07, 2023
A Missouri nursing home didn’t violate federal labor law when it fired five union supporters, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in affirming findings that one of the workers was sleeping on...
‘Reverse the narrative’ on bad staff to improve nursing home accountability
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 15, 2021
Healthcare leaders and policymakers must “reverse the narrative” around incompetent or neglectful nursing home staff and work collaboratively to ensure care teams meet regulatory requirements, according...
Will successful COVID-19 trials entice drugmakers into more SNF partnerships? This exec says yes.
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 09, 2021
The experimental use of monoclonal antibodies in nursing homes during the COVID-19 crisis may finally persuade drugmakers to enroll residents in future drug trials, according to one long-term care executive.
Sondra Norder is controlling the narrative
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 01, 2020
Sondra Norder, President and CEO of St. Paul Elder Services
CareTrust bullish on SNFs in what could be explosive year for growth
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2024
CareTrust REIT is holding a record stash of credit and cash, and company leaders said Friday they are about to unleash a wave of spending on primarily skilled nursing acquisitions.
Owner of defunct Skyline chain pleads guilty in $39M fraud case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 18, 2024
Joseph Schwartz, former owner of Skyline Management and a 90-plus nursing home empire whose collapse sent patients and workers scrambling in 2019, pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in a $39 million...
Nursing homes guilty in criminal staffing, upcoding case; staff off the hook
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 19, 2023
In a rare case in which a nursing home business faced criminal charges over staffing misconduct, two Pennsylvania facilities owned by Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services were found guilty Monday...
LTC Properties is being challenged by operators facing reduced occupancy and higher costs — circumstances that have led to a major payment deferral for one skilled nursing partner.
Nursing homes’ ownership complexity faces challenge in multi-state case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 10, 2023
A Pennsylvania corporation must face claims related to operations of a facility it owns in Florida, following a state court decision that could be a blow to nursing homes’ often complex ownership structures.