Securing a PPP loan: What skilled nursing owners and operators need to know
By
Alexander Cohen
May 11, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges to skilled nursing home owners and operators, one being the ability to compensate and retain their employees. The good news is the Paycheck Protection...
The next pandemic is just starting
By
Mike Lawler
Oct 06, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to earn the country’s attention, and rightfully so. New waves of outbreaks and new variants are likely to be a fact of life for the foreseeable future. Without a doubt,...
Analysis: Poorer states suffered more from COVID-19
By
Ron Rajecki
Mar 27, 2023
The pandemic did not affect all U.S. states equally, according to the results of a newly published observational analysis in The Lancet.
Pharmacist wary of feds relaxing nursing home vaccination process
By
Joe Bush
Dec 20, 2022
While nursing home advocates like LeadingAge and the American Health Care Association lauded last week’s federal loosening of restrictions on facilities giving COVID-19 booster shots in order to increase...
BREAKING: CMS sets new vaccination targets for another 24 states
By
James M. Berklan
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 14, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday that providers in 24 states added to the federal vaccine mandate roster Thursday have until March 15 to become fully vaccinated.
Many older adults declined home health during pandemic, study finds
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jan 23, 2023
Fear of COVID-19 prompted many seniors to cancel medically necessary home healthcare during the pandemic, according to a new study by the University of Michigan.
Moving the needle in nursing home vaccination rates
By
Michael Wasserman
Leslie Eber
Feb 14, 2024
On February 29, 2020, the first Coronavirus nursing home outbreak was reported by the media. Experts in geriatric and long-term care medicine immediately understood the dangers to nursing home residents....
All nursing home staff in Massachusetts must get COVID-19 shots
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 05, 2021
The state is requiring staff and contract employees in all of its 378 facilities to receive a vaccination, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday.
The killer hiding on the porch
By
Gary Tetz
May 19, 2022
I’m not easily surprised these days, because…everything. But I just stumbled across an astonishing bit of data.
Nursing homes to get rare break from feds on reporting requirements
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 29, 2023
Nursing home operators are used to facing increasingly complex reporting requirements, so it comes as no small delight to them that officials could soon be dialing back on what’s mandated.