Nonprofit providers face alarming market forces, must rally, LeadingAge chairman says
By
Tim Mullaney
Oct 22, 2014
Nonprofit long-term care providers must work together to address alarming trends, or their market share could plummet and the sector as a whole could falter, LeadingAge Chairman David Gehm told association...
A tradition gets updated
By
Dave Surico
Oct 01, 2014
Hannah B.G. Shaw Home for the Aged gets with the times by expanding the rural site that once was the Shaw home.
Without 20 percent Medicaid boost, state’s providers say bed reductions will continue
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jan 30, 2023
New York state nursing home advocates want a 20% increase in Medicaid rates, a demand struggling for traction against home-based services.
Judge denies monitor for embattled NY nursing home
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Oct 25, 2023
A New York judge will not name independent monitors for an embattled nursing home, saying the state attorney general’s request was “unwarranted at this juncture.”
Physical therapy group opposes proposed 3.6% reimbursement cut
By
Kristen Fischer
Sep 14, 2023
The Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revisit its Medicare doctor fee proposal for next year, saying the changes could...
Nursing Home Design – Samaritan Manor, Detroit
By
McKnight's Staff
Sep 01, 2007
Motown receives its first new nursing home since the 1980s. Private rooms lend a homelike touch to the renovated hospital space
‘Smell test’ fails? Embattled nursing home operators defend attempts to sell amid legal challenges
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 12, 2023
The federal government is seeking an injunction to halt the sale of assets by nursing home operators in western Pennsylvania that it says does not “pass the smell test.”
Rule aimed at reducing red tape to come later, or maybe not all
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 20, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has officially delayed action on a three-year-old proposal to reduce some duplicative and “unnecessary” requirements for nursing homes another year, with...
State finalizes nursing home rate hike that still won’t cover costs
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Jun 22, 2023
Montana’s nursing homes will see a significant increase in their Medicaid rates after the governor signed into law a hike that will take effect over the next two years.
Two years into pandemic, we’re better prepared to fight off virus variants
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 02, 2021
Despite the threat of the quickly spreading and highly mutated omicron coronavirus variant — which has just landed in the U.S. — we are safer than we were before the pandemic, some experts say.