Therapist advocates sharing layoff concerns with CMS
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 03, 2019
Therapist groups are voicing their concerns about skilled nursing layoffs and reorganization plans in response to the new Patient-Driven Payment Model to federal authorities.
Things I Think | Everyone is Beethoven
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 01, 2022
Beethoven had issues. OK, let’s admit it. He could be kind of a jerk.
More than 400 nursing home closures projected for 2022: report
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 22, 2022
More than 300 nursing homes have closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and another 400 could go out of business this year, according to a new analysis.
McKnight’s 40 for 40: Leah Klusch
By
John O'Connor
Jul 26, 2020
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News has been serving the market for 40 years. Some might consider that a rare achievement. Leah Klusch might see it as a good start.
A dozen frontline workers honored for ‘extraordinary service’ during pandemic
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 02, 2020
A dozen direct caregivers at nursing homes, senior living and various long-term care facilities were honored for their “exceptional acts of care” during the pandemic.
Design Decisions: Atrium Post Acute Care
By
John Andrews
Jun 05, 2017
Converting a golf course property into a full-scale post-acute care
center fulfilled a need in the community while preserving area history.
Life Care Centers President Beecher Hunter calls it a (second) career
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 25, 2020
Beecher Hunter, the president of Life Care Centers of America for the last 14 years, will retire from his post overseeing the chain’s 208 nursing homes on Nov. 2. He will remain in an advisory role until...
‘High stakes’ as providers still face brisk infection control surveys, brace for return of standard...
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 10, 2021
Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with near-routine Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should...
Providers embracing reprieve as staff vaccine deadline passes unenforced
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 09, 2021
Skilled nursing providers with large shares of their workforce still unvaccinated nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines first became available are breathing sighs of relief across the country this week.
Biden administration asks court to revive workplace vaccine mandate
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 24, 2021
The Biden administration has asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a federal workplace COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate after the enforcement was suspended.