Ensign Group goes on buying spree as it reports yet another record quarter
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2024
The Ensign Group on Wednesday announced a sweeping package of deals that will kickstart growth in one market, expand its footprint in five others and make the company a player in a new post-acute segment.
Layering of fines amid state, federal staffing rule conflicts tops providers’ worry list
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Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2024
Providers in states that have recently increased their own nursing home staffing requirements may soon find themselves playing a complicated penalties and numbers game — and buried in additional paperwork.
‘Locked and loaded’: CareTrust touts lending as source of growing pipeline
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Kimberly Marselas
May 06, 2024
A new deal that extends CareTrust’s partnership with the Ensign Group is an example of the company’s willingness to “lend with a purpose” as a means to grow its real estate holdings, leaders said...
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...
Families press for nationwide ‘essential caregiver’ rights
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 18, 2024
More than four years after nearly all visitors were barred from US nursing homes amid a spreading pandemic, consumer advocates are pushing to enshrine permanent access for essential caregivers into federal...
Consulate Healthcare CEO: We’re ‘growing our own’ to rebuild the brand
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 19, 2024
After virtually exiting Florida, where it dominated the skilled nursing landscape before a series of regulatory and legal challenges, Consulate Healthcare is repositioning itself as a quality provider...
Nursing home closed by state over deadly COVID outbreak settles multi-family lawsuit
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 16, 2024
An Oregon nursing home closed by the state after an early 2020 COVID-19 outbreak has reportedly agreed to settle a lawsuit with the families of 13 residents who died.
Medicare audits ‘ramping up’ with isolation coding in the crosshairs
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Josh Henreckson
Apr 22, 2024
Auditors are paying special attention to isolation and quarantine coding amid already heightened Medicare nursing home audits that are expected to increase in coming months, experts warn.
BREAKING: CMS increases hours to 3.48 in final staffing rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 22, 2024
Nursing homes will be required to deliver 3.48 hours daily of direct patient care under a final staffing mandate issued this morning.
Many state governments installed new regulations to govern nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, but those state-level policies weren’t clearly linked to reduced transmission, according to new...