CMS updates operations manual and F-tags for facility closures
By
Ashley Carman
Aug 06, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its operations manual updates, including new F-tags for facility closures last week. The updates include amendments to Appendix PP of the SOM, with...
CMS changes nursing home inspections in response to sequestration cuts
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 10, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will change some nursing home survey procedures in response to budget cuts from sequestration, according to memos released Tuesday. The CMS Survey & Certification...
Improved coordination of dual eligibles could save the federal government $125 billion over 10 years,...
Sep 23, 2011
Requiring dual eligibles — individuals receiving both Medicare and Medicaid benefits — to enroll in team-based coordination of care programs could save the federal government $125 billion over 10 years,...
Smooth Saling gets the job done
By
Mary Gustafson
May 02, 2011
Before Steve Saling was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in February 2006, he worked as a landscape architect in the Boston area. His disease,...
News report: Illegal nursing-home evictions on the rise
Aug 08, 2008
Increasingly, nursing homes are illegally turning out residents to help their bottom lines, according to an analysis in The Wall Street Journal.
SNFs could lose children as payers if lawmakers step in
Sep 05, 2018
North Dakota is looking at a possible change to a state law that allows nursing homes to obtain unpaid debts from residents’ adult children.
‘First of its kind’ degree in LTC management
Mar 20, 2018
Georgia Southwestern State University is rolling out what it calls a “first-of-its-kind” degree for long-term care leaders this fall.
A Day in the Life: Soothing Singers
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Oct 06, 2017
Members of the Threshold Choir at Otterbein Senior Lifestyle Choices are quick to point out that the singing they do isn’t performing.
Administration keeps up contraception fight with Little Sisters of the Poor
By
Apr 26, 2017
Negotiations between the federal government and religious groups over the Affordable Care Act’s controversial contraception mandate could stretch on under a motion filed Monday in federal court.
Third nursing home death attributed to ‘flesh-eating bacteria’
By
Haymarket Media
Apr 07, 2004
Georgia health officials have confirmed a third death at a Gainesville nursing home was caused by the infection known as “flesh-eating bacteria.”