If there’s one thing nursing home providers, consumer advocates and regulators can agree on when it comes to developing a minimum staffing rule, it might be just how difficult the job will be.
Info tech companies scramble to solve LTC workforce crisis
By
John Hall
May 01, 2022
The right information technology could be key to attacking the workforce issues confounding the sector today: talent acquisition, engagement, credentialing, scheduling, time and attendance and more.
Providers have their say in high-level talks
By
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...
How to do it … Battle staffing demons as well as inflation
By
John Hall
May 01, 2022
Experts explain here how nursing homes can best navigate choppy financial waters ahead.
Biden targets nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
President Joe Biden made nursing home history March 1, when he included the sector in his first State of the Union address. Biden pledged a crackdown on private-equity investors and vowed tougher oversight.
Ask the nursing expert: What are some tasks to give the assistant DON?
By
Amy Stewart
Apr 01, 2022
Q: We recently hired an assistant director of nursing. As the director of nursing services, what are some tasks I could delegate?
Ask the payment expert: How should we appropriately query the physician to support diagnosis coding...
By
Eleisha Wilkes, RN, RAC-CTA, RAC-CT, DNS-CT
Apr 01, 2022
Q: How should we appropriately query the physician to support diagnosis coding for PDPM reimbursement?
Ask the legal expert: Can CMS increase financial penalties on nursing homes?
By
Norris Cunningham
Apr 01, 2022
Q: I read that the Biden Administration is seeking to increase financial penalties on nursing homes to catastrophic amounts. Can CMS really do this?
UKG, ADP top provider-used timekeeping, payroll services
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 01, 2022
Approximately one-third of long-term care operators responding to a recent survey indicated they outsource their timekeeping and payroll services, whereas 67% of providers still do not, according to specialty...
The Big Picture | Hold nursing homes accountable. Cheapskates, too
By
John O'Connor
Apr 01, 2022
This spring’s nursing home fun actually started Feb. 28, when the administration said it was going to push for the most sweeping industry reforms since OBRA ’87.