Former DON pleads guilty to making fake COVID-19 vaccine cards
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 24, 2022
The former director of nursing at a South Carolina skilled nursing facility has pleaded guilty in a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine card case, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
New law sets minimum staffing ratios at nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 27, 2020
Providers in New Jersey could spend millions of dollars in order to comply with a new state law that sets minimum direct care staff-to-resident ratios at long-term care facilities.
Lawmakers want more poor performing nursing homes on the SFF list
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Danielle Brown
Nov 18, 2020
The Special Focus Facility program, a federal initiative that targets very low-performing nursing homes for additional oversight and improvements, would be expanded and renamed under a new legislation...
Expert: Sending COVID-19-positive residents to hospital may be wrong ‘knee-jerk’ reaction
By
Liza Berger
Danielle Brown
Apr 02, 2020
Based on the negative outcomes of the coronavirus, long-term care facilities should not automatically send COVID-19-positive residents to the hospital for treatment, the chair of AMDA The Society for Post-Acute...
Providers applaud proposal that would direct federal agencies to study how facility design can reduce...
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Danielle Brown
Nov 06, 2020
Proposed legislation that would require multiple federal agencies to develop best practices for designing senior housing facilities to reduce the spread of contagious diseases received high praise from...
Governors ask for limited waivers on vaccine mandate
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Danielle Brown
Feb 02, 2022
A pair of Republican governors have asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for temporary relief from the healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccine mandate for rural providers and state-run facilities.
Lawmakers’ request would heap more COVID-19 data reporting on LTC providers
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Danielle Brown
Mar 26, 2021
Nursing homes could soon be required to report their COVID-19 vaccination data to the federal government if a request from a bipartisan group of lawmakers is granted by President Joe Biden’s administration.
Less white, denser employee communities linked to higher number of nursing home COVID-19 deaths, Harvard...
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Danielle Brown
Sep 22, 2020
A new Harvard analysis makes the connection between employee neighborhoods and the likelihood of COVID-19 outbreaks within those employees’ facilities.
Ensign CEO: ‘Lessons learned’ will sustain gains as COVID takes aim again
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Danielle Brown
Jul 30, 2021
Ensign executives are confident their operators have the tools to respond to and manage potential COVID-19 outbreaks while maintaining occupancy, as cases nationwide surge again.
‘Waste of time’: Providers rebel against visitor-reporting requirement — and get hit with $155k...
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 29, 2021
Providers are pushing back against a state requirement that mandates them to file weekly visitation reports — on a strict deadline — or face thousands of dollars in fines.