Rules for adult protective services could open door to more skilled nursing investigations, but also...
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2024
A new federal rule has opened the door for more state agencies to investigate nursing homes, but the first national standards for adult protective services also could make such services more accessible...
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Also in the News for Monday, April 15, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 15, 2024
Senate starts work on permanent Medicare physician pay reform, which could hand annual cuts to therapists, others … Many disenrolled from Medicaid due to unwinding remain without insurance … Brain...
Physician 1.7 percent pay fix fails to account for full cuts to therapists, other SNF providers
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 06, 2024
Congressional leaders have agreed to increase physician pay by 1.68% starting next week, but that raise still would not make whole a 3.37% cut initiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare beneficiaries’ access to telehealth services, especially for behavioral health, must remain an initial priority over payment reform or quality measurement, members of a congressional...
Advocates work behind scenes to stop, reshape staffing rule as finalization nears
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2024
Several nursing home advocacy organizations have met with the White House Office of Management and Budget in recent days, angling to change the proposed minimum staffing rule that could be issued in final...
Also in the News for Thursday, March 21
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 21, 2024
Petersen Health Care files for bankruptcy, restructuring … AHCA: Paused state staffing mandates underscore ‘impracticality’ of federal rule … Workforce grants offer $28 million to recruit,...
Also in the News for Friday, Nov. 10
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 10, 2023
CNA association pushes patient-centered care pay reform as staffing fix … LeadingAge coverage: ‘Epic’ workforce challenges can be met with short-, mid- and long-term solutions … Resident charged...
Also in the News for Friday, Dec. 8
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 08, 2023
Support, data, immigration reform necessary to address caregiver workforce shortage … Senate launches investigation into private equity health system investment … Lawmakers propose $62 million grant...
Also in the News for Monday, Oct. 16
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 16, 2023
DOJ still aiming to retry healthcare fraudster Esformes, despite Trump clemency … Prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris in patients receiving mechanical ventilation … Alzheimer’s...