State to reward providers for reducing agency nurse use
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Kimberly Marselas
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 04, 2024
Skilled nursing providers have been working hard to reduce agency dependency in the wake of the pandemic and rising labor costs.
Plenty of space and still a ‘tight squeeze’ for new construction in skilled nursing
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 13, 2023
Ciena Healthcare, owner and operator of 83 nursing homes in five states, is breaking into the healthcare “resort” category with the opening of a 95,000 square foot, $32 million building in the Detroit...
Staffing mandate costs estimated at $6.5B annually, with 1 in 4 residents at risk of displacement, AHCA...
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Josh Henreckson
May 10, 2024
The federal staffing mandate handed down by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cost the long-term care sector $6.5 billion each year, according to analyses from the American Health Care...
MedPAC ‘ruling out’ safety net for SNFs with heavy, low-income Medicare caseloads
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 14, 2023
Nursing homes that treat a large share of low-income Medicare patients have such high margins that they don’t need a bonus payment to help maintain access, a panel that advises Congress on Medicare policy...
RNs, building leaders bank major pay gains in 2023
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 07, 2023
Salaries for nursing home leaders continued their upward trajectory this year, with many facilities responding to staffing shortfalls by increasing pay more rapidly than in the past and sometimes tacking...
Also in the News for Thursday, Oct. 12
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 11, 2023
Florida, with one of nation’s most rigorous staffing rules, says federal mandate will exacerbate workforce shortage … DEA extends telehealth prescription allowances through 2024 … LeadingAge...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Feb. 1
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2023
GA, DE identify nurses with fraudulent licenses in national scheme, questions remain about roles … Union ‘sounds alarm’ over 2-year delay in staffing penalties; short-staffed providers embrace it...
Warning on staffing minimum: Studying costs won’t matter if pay doesn’t add up
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 30, 2022
Cost analysis will be “an important part” of a final report on federal minimum staffing standards, the head of a national study assured nursing home stakeholders Monday.
$2K daily fines poised to begin ‘within days’ as NY staffing rule upheld
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Josh Henreckson
Jan 16, 2024
Long-term care providers took a legal blow when a New York state Supreme Court judge struck down a legal challenge to the state’s staffing mandate law, and now providers could be days away from incurring...
More than 100 House members call for increase to 4.2 daily nursing hours in staffing proposal
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Josh Henreckson
Nov 10, 2023
A group of 103 House members have not only added voices of support to the proposed nursing home staffing rule, they also want the mandated number of nurse hours per patient day inflated to 4.2 — a 40%...