CMS targeting nursing homes with low booster shot rates
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 06, 2023
Big brother is keeping an eye on long-term care operators, and this time in a good way, federal regulators said Thursday on a call with nursing home stakeholders.
Nexion’s Fran Kirley: Thriving by using culture to recruit workers, oust agency
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 25, 2022
During the pandemic, Nexion Health saw its agency staff costs increase by 12 times its base, from $1 million annually in 2019 to about $12 million each in 2020 and 2021.
Nursing home oversight ‘a system in crisis,’ Senate committee finds
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Kimberly Marselas
May 19, 2023
Oversight of the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes is “in crisis,” with many facilities more than a year overdue for routine inspections and nine states reporting more than half their surveyor positions...
Non-traditional lenders are ready to back nursing homes. Here’s their selection criteria
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 15, 2024
MIAMI — The lending environment will likely heat up over the course of 2024, particularly for skilled nursing providers willing to explore new relationships when unable to tap traditional sources, a...
Skilled nursing profits will shrink through 2026, even as other post-acute lines gain: analysis
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2023
Skilled nursing facilities’ profit margins will shrink over the next four years, projects national consulting firm McKinsey & Company, even as other post-acute services make moderate gains.
Are nursing homes headed for an 80% direct-spend rule?
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 11, 2023
A national union on Friday skewed comments made by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to imply federal regulators had proposed an 80% direct care spending requirement for the nursing home...
Bill would eliminate predatory staffing agency fees
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 10, 2023
Lawmakers in Colorado are poised to prohibit agency collection of fees charged to operators who hire agency nurses full-time.
Nursing’s already a dirty job. Regulators are slinging mud
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2024
LPNs may soon find themselves boxed out of quality, well-paying jobs in the very settings that have most often hired them in the past. It’s federal regulators threatening to do them dirty.
Providers ‘on notice’ as CMS pressures states to shift Medicaid pay metrics
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 10, 2022
Providers still struggling to accurately capture diagnoses that drive federal reimbursement will be doubly left behind as more states start to use Patient Driven Payment Model-like systems to determine...
Providers embrace worker-first scheduling, flexibilities to attract, keep workers
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 15, 2023
More than ever before, providers must personalize scheduling and build programs that speak to individual employees to attract the next generation of workers, skilled nursing and senior living leaders emphasized...