Focus shifts to short-stay residents to prevent future COVID-19 outbreaks
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 08, 2021
Health officials in some areas are turning their focus to vaccinating short-stay nursing home residents in an effort to halt a potential surge in cases and deaths.
More pharmacies able to directly bill Medicare, receive pay for SNF coronavirus vaccinations
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 20, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow Medicare-enrolled immunizers to directly bill and receive direct reimbursements from the program for vaccinating Medicare residents in skilled nursing...
Genesis’ targeted COVID vaccine efforts helped increase uptake among Black, Hispanic employees: study
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 27, 2021
Long-term care giant Genesis Healthcare was able to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among its Hispanic and Black employees by 6.1% and 5.4%, respectively, after shifting its vaccine education strategy...
Public data on coronavirus nursing home outbreaks still weeks away
By
Danielle Brown
May 11, 2020
The federal government is still weeks away from publicly reporting nationwide COVID-19 nursing home data, according to an NBC News report.
Nursing home opens as COVID-19 recovery center
Feb 01, 2021
Connecticut – The state has opened a fourth recovery center for COVID-19 patients in an effort to ease the load on nursing providers throughout the state.
CMS: Quality measure threshold changes coming
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 21, 2022
Skilled nursing facilities have an additional tool to measure their own quality improvement efforts under a new change to the quality measures rating domain.
‘Sticks need to come with carrots’: Feds’ nursing home push ‘sound’ but needs more resources,...
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 09, 2022
President Joe Biden’s thrust to improve quality in nursing homes by addressing poor performing providers is a “sound premise” in the federal government’s justification for the initiatives.
CDC hopes $500 million will bring nursing homes, surveyors closer
By
Danielle Brown
Nov 04, 2021
Federal health leaders and long-term care stakeholders are hopeful that a new $500 million nursing home strike team program will be a collaborative partnership between providers and inspectors that reduces...
Senators want the inside story on potential permanent telehealth changes
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 08, 2020
A bipartisan group of senators is seeking information from top federal health officials on permanent changes to Medicare telehealth rules that are currently being considered.
State effort to cover SNF care, other services falls short
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2022
Skilled nursing care apparently won’t be covered by the state of California under a single-payer health system after lawmakers failed to act on the measure Monday.