More staff not necessarily the solution for high-dementia nursing homes, researchers find
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 10, 2024
Achieving higher staffing levels does not resolve key discrepancies between nursing homes with higher and lower percentages of residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other cognitive impairments, a...
AHCA offers ‘wake-up call’ on bed and facility counts: 446,000 residents may be displaced
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 24, 2023
A new report paints a troublesome picture of the US nursing home sector at mid-year, with new facility openings at a standstill, even with the number of beds rapidly declining.
Democrats push new LTC workforce bill as offset to nursing home mandate
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 17, 2024
Key Democratic leaders Tuesday positioned new long-term care workforce legislation as a way to support nursing homes when a first-ever staffing mandate is finalized.
A waste of time? Hardly
By
John O'Connor
May 10, 2024
Some might think it unnecessary or perhaps even unfair to honor women for the exceptional work they do in this field. To that, I have a simple question: What rock have you been living under?
Nursing home sales a ‘symptom’ of poor quality: researchers
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 20, 2023
A new study finds nursing home ownership changes may be a symptom of poor nursing home quality, rather than the cause of it.
State high court keeps provider COVID immunity in play but further defines scope
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 14, 2023
Connecticut’s highest court has offered a mixed ruling for a nursing home that sought dismissal of a wrongful death suit under a state provision limiting COVID-era liability.
Law eliminates staffing ‘hostage situations’ for state’s nursing homes
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 17, 2023
The “hostage situations” where nursing homes learn at the last minute that a staffing agency has double-booked a worker are nearing an end in New Hampshire.
Also in the News for Thursday, Oct. 26
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 26, 2023
State fines nursing home $200K over staffing requirements … Health tech vital for rural healthcare, but not a ‘silver bullet’ for shortages or care improvements: panel … Fresenius recalls some...
Rural nursing homes in peril
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 04, 2024
Like many of its skilled nursing neighbors in the Cornhusker State, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role with special small-town flourishes and succumbing...
Behind the push to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 30, 2024
Nursing home residents — who often deal with complex and overlapping medical conditions — should be included in more clinical trials for therapies and medications, a group of researchers is emphasizing...