Sun Healthcare’s chief executive may have saved the company from liquidation with a little bit of luck, and a healthy helping of panache.
Medicare Advantage plans forcing providers to take ‘optional’ payment reductions
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 15, 2022
Many skilled nursing providers are still underusing Interim Payment Assessments under the nascent Patient Drive Payment Model, but one new pressure is driving some to submit those extra patient evaluations...
Not so fast: 10 states suing CMS over healthcare worker vax mandate
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 12, 2021
Despite many legal analysts’ view that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ healthcare worker vaccination mandate will clear legal muster, a group of 10 states have filed suit to stop it.
Q&A: Are you listening? A veteran provider on fostering engagement with Black and brown staff, residents
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 26, 2021
The pandemic has trained a spotlight on numerous healthcare disparities faced by Black and brown long-term care residents. Monica Payne, a veteran clinical manager for Omnicare, says that reflecting on...
Dementia care boost
By
Kim Warchol
Feb 01, 2011
Kim Warchol, OTR/L Founder, Dementia Care Specialists Inc.
Empathy crash course
Apr 01, 2010
Nothing builds perspective more than developing compassion for others, and that’s what employees of Aviston Countrywide Manor recently did as part of the nursing home’s “Through the Looking...
Curious by nature
By
Liza Berger
Dec 01, 2008
Dr. Neil Kurtz President, CEO Golden Living
Opinion — Having my say: Lisa Shugarman, Ph.D.
May 09, 2007
While more than 3,200 Americans have died in Iraq since the United States invaded that nation in March 2003, about 120,000 Americans have died in their own country during the same period after losing battles...
Select Rehab becomes nation’s largest post-acute therapy provider — and it’s not done growing
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 03, 2020
Select Rehabilitation, now the largest U.S. post-acute contract rehab company, said Wednesday it has no intention of standing pat and hopes to grow further.
Parkinson: Nursing home sector pinning hopes on ‘Medicaid adequacy’ rule
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 11, 2022
After characterizing business conditions as “never worse,” the skilled nursing sector’s top advocate said stakeholders need more help from both the federal and state governments to forge a viable...