As Medicare Advantage drives rate lower, fed-up CEOs embrace strategies that limit carriers’ influence
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2021
Medicare Advantage’s aggressive market penetration represents a major threat to skilled nursing providers, some of whom now find themselves clearing less per resident day through MA plans than they do...
Even with PHE extension, providers worry about early demise of nurse aide waiver
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 21, 2021
The ongoing Public Health Emergency extends CMS waivers related to hiring, admissions and assessment practices. But as the agency has already shown, it has the authority to revoke those Section 1135 waivers...
LTC workers are reporting crisis-level burdens. Could this on-the-job stress management program make...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 02, 2021
Long-term care providers reported stress approaching severe levels even as the pandemic’s death march waned, according to early analysis of a survey that included nearly 1,200 healthcare and senior care...
Hospital sinks $37 million into new nursing home that will operate like a hotel
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Kimberly Marselas
May 29, 2019
Orlando Health saw an opportunity to build its skilled nursing base after looking closely at its aging post-acute facility in Winter Garden, FL.
Question, blame, repeat: The all-too predictable COVID cycle
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2022
Will there be six more weeks of hand-wringing when it comes to placing political blame for early COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes? It’s all part of the COVID cycle.
Related business interests fueling operator activity in skilled nursing: lender
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 04, 2021
HOUSTON — Ancillary businesses that depend on access to nursing homes helped to sustain interest in the skilled nursing market throughout 2021, even as census labored below 2019 levels, according to...
With key resources at the ready, speciality providers have done well amid COVID-19
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2021
Most of long-term care has found itself hobbled by low occupancy and consumers’ sustained fears during the pandemic, but one group has fared much better than the others.
Staff texting can be a lifeline, but convenience comes with a cost, experts warn providers
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2019
Late last year, anyone using the right search terms could have stumbled onto an open database containing valuable text messages that should have remained private — including appointment and billing information...
New bundled payment model may leave SNFs at disadvantage
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 11, 2018
A new voluntary bundled payment model announced this week doesn’t focus on cost-saving innovations in the long-term care setting and limits benefits for those providers, observers said Wednesday.
NextStep partnership offers CNAs new COVID-readiness certificate
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2020
NextStep, a startup that trains and places high-demand healthcare workers, today announced the launch of an online certificate designed to improve the safety of certified nursing assistants and other caregivers...