AARP: Shortage grows more severe in low-income senior housing
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Haymarket Media
Jan 10, 2007
Many low-income older Americans have to wait more than a year for housing, according to a new report from AARP.
Census report: Number of elderly in U.S. tops 12%
By
Haymarket Media
Aug 29, 2006
Elderly people make up about 12.1% of the nation’s household population, according to an update of the 2000 Census.
Bonuses, 5.49% salary jump part of soaring costs for CCRC nurse leaders: report
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 08, 2022
Costly bonuses remain a key strategy as providers try to find and retain workers amid sharply rising salaries for continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs).
CMS: Surveyors looking for education, not expertise, under COVID-19 vaccine rule that starts today
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2021
Nursing homes will not be expected to turn their staff members into vaccine experts under a new rule that requires all workers to be offered COVID-19 shots and to be educated about them, a federal official...
Multi-facility execs’ pay rises
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 08, 2018
Executives with multi-site organizations in the nonprofit aging services sector received average raises of 4.7% in 2017, the same as the previous year, according to a LeadingAge-commissioned survey. Chief...
OIG probes hospitalizations
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 01, 2014
A fourth of the 3.3 million Medicare beneficiaries who lived in a nursing home in 2011 were hospitalized for at least one day. This came at a cost of $14.3 billion, according to a Nov. 18 report from the...
Healthcare costs will climb 7.5% in 2013, report predicts
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 04, 2012
National healthcare costs could jump 7.5% in 2013, which is a faster pace than rates of inflation and the gross domestic product, a new report finds.
McKnight’s Super Tuesday webinar tackles payment
May 31, 2012
Long-term care operators are facing dramatically changing payment realities in 2012. Industry veteran Pat Boyer will join McKnight’s editors in offering insights and advice that can help guide eldercare...
First MDS 3.0 training to take place next week
Mar 12, 2010
Federal regulators will conduct the first of a handful of “train the trainer” sessions for the new MDS 3.0 nursing home assessment tool Monday through Friday in Baltimore. The highly anticipated...
Medicare Part D poses problems for LTC residents, report finds
By
Haymarket Media
Nov 16, 2006
The Medicare Part D drug program is creating problems for long-term care residents in some states, according to a new report by the National Association of State Medicaid Directors and Avalere Health LLC.