Providers will be greeted at the end of the month by more important tweaks and changes to multiple parts of the Minimum Data Set resident assessment tool.
CMS withholds another $1-plus million over vaccine mandate compliance
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 14, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has withheld $1.2 million in funding from Florida over the state’s refusal to monitor facilities ability to meet the federal COVID-19 vaccine requirement...
Kansas losing $350,000 for not enforcing healthcare worker vaccine mandate
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 31, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is cutting Kansas’ Medicaid funding by nearly $350,000 for not enforcing the federal healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccine mandate in nursing homes and hospitals.
BREAKING: HHS reveals provider incentive plan for remaining $2 billion in relief funding
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 03, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services announced it will use infection and mortality rates to determine nursing home incentive pay when distributing a previously announced $2 billion Provider Relief...
Get the backpacks ready: New school bell will toll for Oklahoma seniors this fall
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2019
Nearly 20 years ago, Grace Living Centers launched a kindergarten and pre-K program inside the walls of its assisted living and skilled nursing home in Jenks, OK. Starting this fall, the organization will...
Provider advocates say ‘abrupt’ changes to Nursing Home Compare are confusing consumers
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 25, 2019
Industry trade groups slammed changes to Nursing Home Compare that went into effect on Wednesday, concerned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is “moving the goalposts” for providers.
Meet Hannah Sizemore, 2023 Rising Star
By
Amy Novotney
Aug 09, 2023
Learn more about Hannah Sizemore, Administrator, Barbourville Health & Rehabilitation Center, Barbourville KY.
Meet Genevieve Gipson, 2023 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Ron Rajecki
Jul 24, 2023
Learn more about Genevieve Gipson, RN, MEd, Director and Founder, National Network of Career Nursing Assistants, Norton, OH.
FDA greenlights first home COVID test with traditional premarket review
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 07, 2023
The Cue COVID-19 Molecular Test is the first at-home COVID-19 test to be granted marketing authorization outside of emergency use authorities, representing a new era of consumer access to diagnostic tests,...
Opinion — Editor’s desk: ‘AdvEx’ – it’s time for yet another high quality...
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 08, 2006
Let’s be honest. I wasn’t the only one rolling my eyes or smirking upon hearing there was yet another nursing home “quality” push on its way.