Skilled nursing recovery hangs in the balance as life with COVID takes shape
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2022
As U.S. skilled nursing providers approach the two-year anniversary of COVID-19’s deadly beginnings, they’re looking for a fresh start. But will they be able to find it in a year during which any major...
Consensus builder is center stage
Feb 01, 2022
In September 2021, Bob Lane became the president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators even though he had planned to retire after 34 years in aging services.
60 Seconds with…
Feb 01, 2022
You examined hospital transfer trends among older and “younger” long-stay nursing home residents. Are there really that many young nursing home patients?
Cook who quit over face mask gets jobless benefits revoked
Feb 01, 2022
A judge has ruled that an Iowa nursing home worker who resigned her job after refusing to wear a face mask at work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is not entitled to receive unemployment compensation...
As pandemic eases, focus on IT safety, automation for gains
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2022
Information technology has risen to the occasion over the past two years to help skilled nursing providers grapple with COVID-19, but IT executives must now ponder other priorities that may have been overlooked...
Overall number of clinicians in nursing homes nearly doubles
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2022
Nursing home operators have not only admitted an increasingly frail number of patients, they’ve also hired a correspondingly larger pool of clinicians to treat them, according to a decade-long research...
VA joins with human mobility firm on joint pain
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 01, 2022
The San Francisco VA Health Care System, along with the Northern California Institute for Research and Education, has partnered with human mobility firm Roam Robotics to study the impact of Ascend, the...
SNFs must stay vigilant about sharing worker data digitally
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 01, 2022
Concerns over a potential data breach at a major healthcare staffing agency in December shed light on the very real threat to healthcare providers relying more than ever on vendors for temporary help.
CMS airing out staffing data
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early January it would start posting nursing home turnover rates for nurses and administrators, as well as weekend staffing levels, by the end...
How to do it… Raise other infection control up to snuff
By
John Hall
Feb 01, 2022
As year three of the pandemic approaches and COVID-19 remains a stubborn obstacle, it’s clear other infection control priorities haven’t received the attention they deserve.