New employee interviews, deeper dive into PBJ data could lead to more survey citations
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 01, 2022
Nursing home operators should be on high alert about the questions surveyors will ask employees about sufficient staffing after heavy emphasis was placed on the matter in updated guidance released this...
New employment rules offer nursing homes short-term fixes
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 25, 2022
Rules about who can work in nursing homes under what circumstances are changing across the country as providers continue to grapple with unprecedented staffing challenges.
5 states permanently increased nursing homes’ minimum staffing requirements since COVID, analysis shows
By
Danielle Brown
May 18, 2022
Nearly a dozen states have changed their minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Operator accused of withholding employee raises worth $250,000
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 02, 2022
Connecticut lawmakers are pushing for a state investigation into a nursing home operator accused of not paying 4.5% salary increases after receiving state funding to do so.
HHS pledges $103 million for worker burnout, shortages
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 24, 2022
The Biden administration is supplying $103 million in grants to help curb healthcare worker burnout and staffing shortages, the White House announced Friday.
Providers push feds for more support in hiring foreign workers amid workforce crisis
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 16, 2022
Amid an ongoing push for legislative fixes that could make more immigrants to hire, the nation’s two largest nursing home associations are pursuing a regulatory course too.
CMS stresses it wants more stakeholder views on nursing homes staffing shortages
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 27, 2022
The leader of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday challenged providers to give more insight on the workforce crises they are dealing with as the agency prepares to set minimum staffing...
Providers target ‘bottleneck’ in hiring of foreign RNs, therapists
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 07, 2022
Long-term care providers are calling on the Department of Labor to improve the process it uses to determine prevailing wages for foreign physical therapists and registered nurses as a way to ease the ongoing...
Share of nursing facilities reporting staffing shortages declines
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 23, 2022
Less nursing homes are reporting at least one staffing shortage through the end of February, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Measure protecting providers from minimum staffing penalties fails
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 15, 2022
Rhode Island nursing homes could face more than $10 million in penalties in the first quarter of 2023 alone for not meeting the state’s new minimum staffing requirement. Senate lawmakers in late June...