Healthcare group purchasing organizations are on the front lines of helping their long-term care facility partners confront these new challenges.
Dissatisfaction driving nurses from field
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Amy Novotney
Feb 01, 2022
Fully two-thirds of nurses were considering leaving the profession in late 2021, according to a recent national survey.
Nursing homes sue over minimum staffing ratios, mandatory spending levels
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Danielle Brown
May 25, 2022
Nonprofit New York nursing homes are taking action against the state in a push to overturn “illegal and unconstitutional” policies that establish a minimum staffing requirement and spending mandates...
State officials hunger for staffing minimum even higher than the one they haven’t implemented yet
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 03, 2023
Lawmakers in Connecticut appear ready to toughen their state’s nursing home staffing minimum next year, even before they have fully tested a 3.0 hours per-day requirement currently in play.
CMS resumes two-midnight rule audits
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Sep 14, 2016
Quality Improvement Organizations have resumed audits of short-stay hospital admissions under the two-midnight rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday.
Staff deaths, other elements to be removed from CDC data requirements
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 26, 2023
Skilled nursing providers will soon see significant changes to COVID-related data-reporting requirements, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced.
Maintaining your COVID-19 library of materials
By
Jacquelyn Smith Clarke
Feb 07, 2022
As the pandemic progresses, we have become used to the constant upending of what we thought we once knew. From PPE guidance to testing and vaccines, the amount of information and how quickly it changes...
Financial options could be dwindling for troubled SNFs
By
John Hall
Nov 11, 2022
Inflation concerns are palpable for some already cash-strapped facilities facing occupancy issues and closure fears.
Implementing the federal staffing mandate will do more than just stir the pot
By
Zach Shamberg
May 17, 2024
How’s this for a truly perplexing recipe? Nursing homes are closing, access to care for seniors and adults with disabilities is being restricted, Medicaid reimbursement can’t keep pace with the true...
Clinical briefs for Friday, Aug. 12
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 12, 2022
Study shows PPE highly effective against COVID-19 in ER workers … Survey: Three-quarters of community pharmacies report staff shortages … COVID-19 death rate has held steady since spring … Researchers...