Pandemic offers upsides for long-term care, industry veteran says
By
Liza Berger
Nov 05, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic, while extremely dangerous and challenging, offers a chance for long-term care and the therapy it offers to prove their worth, one longtime industry executive told McKnight’s Long-Term...
Providers offer mixed reaction to Senate Republicans’ $1T COVID-19 spending bill
By
Liza Berger
Jul 28, 2020
The long-term care associations offered starkly different responses to Senate Republicans’ $1 trillion coronavirus bill, entitled the HEAL Act, which Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) revealed...
‘Cash crunch’ ahead: Volume of hospital discharges to SNFs unlikely to rebound ‘any time soon,’...
By
Liza Berger
Oct 08, 2020
The volume of hospital discharges to skilled nursing facilities is not likely to return to anything like pre-pandemic levels in the near future, said Fred Bentley, managing director of Avalere, a healthcare...