As revenue slips, study aims to calculate true cost of agency staffing
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 02, 2022
A new report predicts post-acute care providers will miss out on nearly $20 billion in revenue this year, not due to COVID but rather staffing challenges.
The summer of our nursing homes’ discontent
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 01, 2022
Memorial Day weekend usually ushers in a feeling of lightness, but I’m weighed down by uncertainty this year. Will it be a summer of discontent?
After leading in COVID-19 drug trials, a nursing home chain now partners on dementia drug
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Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2022
Principle LTC, operator of 45 nursing homes in the Southeast, is building on its successful role in testing a key drug for COVID-19 prevention and treatment to launch trials of a new Alzheimer drug.
Having My Say | Until Ukrainian caregivers can rest, don’t look away
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2022
In times of crisis, we put women and children first. Except for women and children in congregate care settings, and the (mostly) women who care for them the world over.
Cantex’s Peter Longo: Building a gateway to the future through ancillary services
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Kimberly Marselas
May 23, 2022
The ability to care for patients more seamlessly through ancillary services excites referral partners. So do better outcomes facilitated across the continuum and during transitions of care. But it takes...
As Medicare Advantage grows, experts say, so do hard-to-fight denials
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Kimberly Marselas
May 19, 2022
In addition to sagging Medicare Advantage payment rates, some skilled nursing providers also find themselves routinely doing battle to get paid for services they’ve already delivered.
With REIT ownership of SNFs at 12%, experts question compatibility of business and healthcare goals
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
Last year, real estate investment trusts owned an estimated 12% of all skilled nursing facilities, a level that Harvard researchers say should push policymakers to “ensure that the REIT business model...
Ditch the cash-only mentality for these ‘ready, set to go’ hiring strategies, pros advise
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2022
Combining pay increases with innovative benefits and a culture that rewards loyalty is a vital way to improve long-term care hiring and retention, six industry leaders said last week.
What doesn’t work...
Stagnant Medicaid rates aren’t just putting operators faced with outsized staffing costs into the red; in some places, they may be limiting access to the very capital providers need to sustain daily...
Providers have their say in high-level talks
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2022
Providers came away from early spring meetings with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and other federal health officials feeling encouraged about the government’s...