Provider orgs caution finalized physician rule would be ‘existential threat’ to patient care
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 11, 2023
A plan to cut doctors’ pay and bring more clinical oversight into nursing homes will decrease patient care and therapy, groups are warning.
They said it best in 2022 — long-term care’s most popular blogs, podcasts
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 22, 2022
Here is a look at 2022’s most popular blogs and most listened to podcasts from McKnight’s, as indicated by hundreds of thousands of reader clicks.
Breaking agency to boost speciality potential: Vivage’s Jay Moskowitz
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 06, 2023
Just a year after deciding not to renew 11 leases it held with Omega Healthcare Investors, Vivage Senior Living is moving forward with a merger it hopes will reinvigorate innovative programs across its...
Audits trigger new concern over aging CMS antipsychotic standards
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 03, 2023
Worries over federal audits designed to monitor nursing homes for inappropriate schizophrenia diagnosing continued to mount as some providers learned they had “failed” their check-ups months into the...
Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 22, 2024
Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead — and whether the government will make the needed legal,...
Rural nursing homes in peril
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 04, 2024
Like many of its skilled nursing neighbors in the Cornhusker State, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role with special small-town flourishes and succumbing...