First staffing mandate deadline nears, bringing compliance and legal threats: AHCA VP warns
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2024
Skilled nursing providers cannot “blow off” a fast-approaching requirement to update their facility assessments using new elements, a sector top advocate warned
Senator renews call for surveyor funding after staffing rule release
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 15, 2023
An influential senator is renewing his calls for increased funding for state survey agencies, following the release earlier this month of a federal staffing minimum that would require extensive on-site...
Who counts? A staffing rule conundrum
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2024
Nursing home operators are still missing one key detail needed to complete the complicated mathematical equations that will dominate their planning and spending for the next few years.
As forecast price of federal staffing mandate climbs to $11.7B, analysts offer alternatives
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2023
A minimum staffing mandate of 4.1 hours per patient per day could cost the skilled nursing sector $11.7 billion annually, according to an updated analysis by consulting and advisory firm CliftonLarsonAllen.
In Washington to champion skilled nursing, providers pick up another anti-staffing mandate measure in...
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2024
Federal lawmakers continue to look for ways to reverse a staffing rule that demands nursing homes hire more than 102,000 new staff members, with fresh promises Monday to pursue several paths forward.
Long-term care operators could face 50% premium hikes next year
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 16, 2023
Many long-term care and senior living operators are likely facing steep insurance premium jumps for 2024, with underwriters increasingly skittish about extending coverage to poorly positioned clients.
‘Moment of decision’ appears near on nursing home staffing rule
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2024
A two-day spate of legislative action opposing the nursing home staffing mandate has some staunch supporters of the requirements feeling “very concerned” about the rule’s future.
Senate bill to block nursing home staffing mandate introduced
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 06, 2023
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) officially introduced a bill late Tuesday aiming to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its proposed nursing home staffing mandate.
Nursing homes reveal widespread emergency planning barriers in new OIG report
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2023
More than three-quarters of US nursing homes in areas at high risk for natural disasters face significant challenges in preparing for them, estimates a new federal report issued early Wednesday.
‘Locked and loaded’: CareTrust touts lending as source of growing pipeline
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Kimberly Marselas
May 06, 2024
A new deal that extends CareTrust’s partnership with the Ensign Group is an example of the company’s willingness to “lend with a purpose” as a means to grow its real estate holdings, leaders said...