With right capital, PACS looks to solidify ‘legacy’ with 53-facility deal
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Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2024
Six weeks after going public, long-term care provider PACS Group announced Thursday it was expanding by nearly 25%, adding 53 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the Northwest.
The pen pals nobody wants: These members of Congress miss the point, again
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Kimberly Marselas
May 07, 2024
In a week in which Congress appears ready to get down to work on several bills meant to ease workforce issues for struggling nursing homes, some elected leaders would rather create more busy work for some...
House committee split raises new questions on nursing home staffing rule’s future
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2024
Some House lawmakers Tuesday painted their effort to repeal a new nursing home staffing mandate as a bid to ensure access to care and to stake their authority over a rogue regulatory agency at the same...
Contracts that limit time that employees have to sue come under fire
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 30, 2024
A state appeals court has rejected a plea from several former nursing home workers to reopen a discrimination case against their employer. But in doing so, it may have increased pressure on Michigan’s...
‘Raining for 4 years’: Historic nonprofit nursing home maintains legacy amid deluge of challenges
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 26, 2024
The Chapin Home has survived two pandemics, two world wars, the Great Depression and other economic calamities to serve the poor and ailing of New York City across three centuries.
Wait-and-see staffing rule exemptions meant to ‘safeguard’ residents: CMS
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2024
Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Providers: Staffing rule a CMS ‘fairy tale’ that will ‘exacerbate’ nursing home access issue
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 23, 2024
Despite minor concessions in a staffing mandate issued Monday, many nursing home providers were shell-shocked by what they saw as federal regulators’ intractable stance on minimums at a time when nearly...
One more spin around the dance floor before CMS takes its bow
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2024
It’s the annual coming out season for the nursing home brass at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, who’ve recently been spotted at two provider conferences and filled a whole day’s agenda...
Nursing home fights for right to end temporary bonuses, avoid $369K payout
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2024
Can a nursing home end an emergency bonus program for unionized workers without negotiating after a contract has expired?
Why CMS is shifting its infection control focus to sepsis
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 11, 2024
BALTIMORE — Quality experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be taking a closer look at sepsis rates in nursing homes while continuing broader efforts to improve infection control,...