CMS now using 14 days of data to calculate COVID-19 county positivity rate; HHS could improve nursing...
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Danielle Brown
Sep 23, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid has modified its methodology used for classifying county-level COVID-19 data that determines how often nursing homes will have to test staff members for the disease.
‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: 95% of nursing home residents taking vaccine, Parkinson says
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Danielle Brown
Jan 04, 2021
A vast majority of nursing home residents are signing up to receive the first dose of available coronavirus vaccine, according to the leader of the nation’s largest nursing home association.
Providers want 24-hour RN staffing proposal cut from House infrastructure plan
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Danielle Brown
Nov 05, 2021
The nation’s largest nursing home association is demanding that lawmakers withdraw a proposal in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill that would require long-term care facilities to have a registered...
HHS extends coverage for COVID-19 screening at nursing homes
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Danielle Brown
Sep 01, 2020
Nursing homes in states that prohibit the use of point-of-care COVID-19 tests to screen for the disease can now do so after the Department of Health and Human Services extended coverage to include congregate...
‘Detrimental to patients and taxpayers’: House hearing lambasts private-equity ownership in nursing...
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Danielle Brown
Mar 26, 2021
Witnesses called for greater transparency and federal oversight of the private-equity landscape within long-term care during a Congressional hearing Thursday that kept the issue in the national spotlight.
One-time universal testing at nursing homes would cost $440M, AHCA says; most nursing homes on track...
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Danielle Brown
May 21, 2020
Just one round of testing every nursing home resident and staff member would cost about $440 million nationwide, according to data released Wednesday by the American Health Care Association/National Center...
65% of nursing homes operating at a loss, survey finds
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Danielle Brown
Dec 17, 2020
Ninety percent of nursing home operators are currently operating at a loss or at a profit margin of less than 3% — with almost two-thirds of them operating a loss, according to a new industry survey.
HHS lets suspense mount on remaining Provider Relief Funds
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Danielle Brown
Aug 05, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services is remaining quiet on how and when it plans to redistribute the approximate $24 billion of what’s left in the Provider Relief Fund.
One-time COVID-19 testing at SNFs and ALFs would cost $672M
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Danielle Brown
May 28, 2020
The total bill would be about $672 million to test every resident and staff member at each U.S. nursing home and assisted living facility just once, according to new data released by the American Health...
Trump takes on governors, pushes states to universally test nursing home residents, staff
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Danielle Brown
May 12, 2020
President Trump Monday urged states to universally test all nursing home residents and staff, and suggested that such testing should have happened earlier.