With REIT ownership of SNFs at 12%, experts question compatibility of business and healthcare goals
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
Last year, real estate investment trusts owned an estimated 12% of all skilled nursing facilities, a level that Harvard researchers say should push policymakers to “ensure that the REIT business model...
$15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
A $15 million grant program could kickstart a new approach to behavioral healthcare delivery in U.S. nursing homes, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.
Stagnant Medicaid rates aren’t just putting operators faced with outsized staffing costs into the red; in some places, they may be limiting access to the very capital providers need to sustain daily...
Providers have their say in high-level talks
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2022
Providers came away from early spring meetings with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other federal health officials feeling encouraged about the government’s...
This group has a lock on aging in place
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Kimberly Marselas
May 04, 2022
There’s one rapidly aging in place population that not many pundits are thinking of in their equations. And it’s growing explosively.
While regulators are working furiously to push through a comprehensive nursing home reform agenda backed by the Biden administration, providers remain concerned about an earlier change whose impact is...
iCare’s Chris Wright: Seizing on skilled nursing’s behavioral health opportunities
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2022
For more than 20 years, Chris Wright has been doing what many other nursing home operators either can’t or won’t: taking patients with behavioral health diagnoses, treating them with embedded,...
Feds’ spotlight on owners could detract from patient focus, experts warn
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 21, 2022
An effort to improve transparency into nursing home ownership took a major leap forward when federal officials posted previously non-public data Wednesday. But providers and legal experts cautioned that...
BREAKING: Ownership changes go public in fresh CMS move
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services early Wednesday announced it had posted data on nursing home ownership changes to its website in an effort to increase transparency.
This ‘less costly’ staffing fix can’t get past the border
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2022
A larger pool of immigrants in the U.S. could both improve nursing homes’ ability to hire for frontline positions and reduce dependency on institutional care in the long-term, speakers at a healthcare...