CMS makes it official: 6 new quality measures go live on Nursing Home Compare
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Apr 28, 2016
Six new quality measures were added to Nursing Home Compare on Wednesday, making for the largest addition of quality measures to the website since 2003.
DACA rollback could hit healthcare workforce
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Sep 08, 2017
Nearly one-fifth of people covered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program work in healthcare and education, potentially resulting in long-term care taking a workforce hit if the program...
AHCA’s resident satisfaction surveys endorsed by National Quality Forum
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Dec 08, 2016
Three resident satisfaction measures developed by the American Health Care Association have received an endorsement from the National Quality Forum, the provider group announced Wednesday.
Nursing home quality measures should address short-stay rehab residents, group says
Jan 13, 2012
The set of quality measures used on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare website should be updated to include more measures for short-stay rehabilitation residents, according to one panel of experts....
Dual eligibles more likely to go from hospitals to lower quality nursing homes, referral process might...
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Tim Mullaney
May 27, 2014
People eligible both for Medicare and Medicaid go to lower-quality nursing homes after being hospitalized at a rate higher than Medicare-only patients, according to researchers from Brown and Harvard universities.
Nursing home operators’ self-dealings criticized in national report
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2018
A highly critical analysis finds nearly three-quarters of U.S. nursing homes are involved in “related party transactions,” often funneling money to sister companies while claiming to be cash-strapped...
What the future holds
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John O'Connor
May 08, 2015
Like many people, I often wonder what operators should be doing to prep for the road ahead. So when the final program for last month’s NIC Capital Business Strategies Forum listed a session called...
Ask the payment expert … about the financial benefits of QAPI
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Patricia Boyer
Mar 01, 2014
What are the financial benefits to implementing CMS’s Quality Assurance Performance Improvement program?
Quality of care improving for minorities in nursing homes: study
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Holly Petrovich
Jul 09, 2015
The quality of care in nursing homes with higher populations of racial minority residents has improved, according to a study.
Stern warning for private-equity firms
Mar 11, 2008
The leader of long-term care workers’ largest union on Monday defended his group’s aggressive actions late last year over the sale of the nation’s largest nursing home chain, Manor Care,...