Facilities missing staffing requirements threatened with possible state admissions freeze
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 24, 2024
Lawmakers will have nursing home policy in their sights during the upcoming Connecticut legislative session, with one proposed provision threatening a two-week admissions freeze for facilities that fail...
More staff not necessarily the solution for high-dementia nursing homes, researchers find
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 10, 2024
Achieving higher staffing levels does not resolve key discrepancies between nursing homes with higher and lower percentages of residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other cognitive impairments, a...
Researchers dissect LTC’s immigrant workforce, push for even more
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 09, 2024
Immigrant care workers make up an increasingly large share of the nursing home workforce — largely because US-born certified nursing assistants have fled the sector, a new study in Health Affairs confirmed...
Fines suspended for nursing homes that violate minimum staffing law
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 03, 2024
As debate continues to rage around the proposed federal nursing home staffing mandate, the rollouts of two state-level mandates illuminate the difficulties in enforcing these sweeping rules.
After 17 successful years, provider expands CNA training program to competing nursing homes
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 03, 2024
As the need to attract new staff into the flagging long-term care workforce intensifies, one provider’s successful career program is expanding its scope to help in-state competitors.
Exploitation concerns persist as push for immigrant workers grows
By
Josh Henreckson
Dec 13, 2023
Immigrant nurses are already a key demographic in long-term care, and are likely to become more vital in the future. But allegations of coercive labor practices by some providers and staffing agencies...
Losing $100K a month, a 50-year-old nursing home turns to bake sales, public pleas to cover costs
By
Josh Henreckson
Dec 06, 2023
A Rhode Island nursing home is creatively sounding the alarm on Medicaid reimbursement funding gaps that have forced it to operate with six-figure monthly losses.
Nursing home coalition advances plans to fix long-term care on 3 fronts
By
Josh Henreckson
Nov 29, 2023
A national long-term care coalition gave an update Tuesday on their action plans to address the fundamental issues facing the LTC sector.
State staffing minimums provided motive to falsify nursing home records, witness testifies in ‘ghost...
By
Josh Henreckson
Nov 28, 2023
A surveyor’s testimony took the spotlight recently in a criminal fraud trial involving leaders of two nursing homes.
New state staffing mandate the last straw for 137-year-old rural nursing home
By
Josh Henreckson
Nov 17, 2023
After providing care in three different centuries, Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center is closing its doors due to regulatory and funding pressures.