Providers embracing reprieve as staff vaccine deadline passes unenforced
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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.
CMS issues PDPM updates and makes 2.4% Medicare raise official
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 31, 2019
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from LeadingAge. Skilled nursing providers will split an $851 million pay increase in FY 2020, following a final rule published by the Centers...
‘High stakes’ as providers still face brisk infection control surveys, brace for return of standard...
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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...
Skilled nursing management firm avoids class action in data breach case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2023
A management firm serving nursing homes in four states has avoided a class-action lawsuit related to a 2021 data breach.
Thousands of Louisiana eviction warnings sent
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Kimberly Marselas
May 11, 2018
Louisiana officials on Thursday mailed notices of potential evictions to 37,000 Medicaid beneficiaries who could soon lose coverage, including at least 19,000 who might be forced out of nursing homes if...
BREAKING: CMS reveals more nursing home ownership information
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Sep 26, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today made more nursing home ownership data available as part of the White House’s push to increase transparency in the sector.
With scope unknown, nursing homes brace for new schizophrenia audits
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Three weeks after federal officials announced they would begin auditing nursing homes for overuse of schizophrenia diagnoses, providers are still looking for answers about what those investigations will...
BREAKING: CMS to make shared nursing home ownership, performance clearer for consumers
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 28, 2023
Federal regulators will begin posting nursing home affiliations on Nursing Home Care Compare in an attempt to make it easier for consumers to see related facilities and understand their overall performance,...
As crisis builds, five rural Nebraska nursing homes close
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 22, 2021
Staffing pressures and Medicaid reimbursement issues being felt around the nation are leading to significant closures in rural Nebraska by year’s end.
Lawsuit challenges nursing home liability protections for non-COVID death
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 27, 2021
Survivors of a former North Carolina nursing home resident are suing the facility where she died in what could be a litmus test for the patchwork of liability protections granted to healthcare providers...