Room for optimism, leader says, despite COVID-19 deaths, winter of uncertainty ahead
By
Joe Bush
Nov 29, 2022
Despite the rising proportion of COVID-19 deaths attributed to seniors and the uncertainty of what the winter months might bring, optimism found its way into Monday’s LeadingAge coronavirus update call.
‘We will not go back’ to early pandemic restriction, CMS leader says
By
Kimberly Marselas
Joe Bush
Oct 17, 2022
Promoting a return to normalcy, a top CMS official said Sunday that nursing homes will not return to the stringent isolation policies of the early pandemic.
Eighty percent of recent investigations into nursing facilities, residential care centers, home health providers and similar employers led to proven violations, the US Department of Labor’s Wage and...
APIC urges healthcare workers to continue masking despite CDC pullback
By
Joe Bush
Oct 04, 2022
A major association for infection prevention professionals is strongly urging its members to continue masking in patient care areas even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened its...
Nursing home administrators’ commitment pushed them through fears of the sector’s collapse during...
By
Joe Bush
Dec 14, 2022
Nursing home administrators stressed about their industry’s sustainability due to the costs of responding to COVID-19, lost revenue, and the negative portrayal of nursing homes by the media, found a...
Providers warned: Ongoing relief fund audits may bring unprecedented info demands
By
Joe Bush
Nov 21, 2022
Provider Relief Fund audits have started in earnest, with the threat of federal investigators demanding more and different data than most skilled nursing providers have ever been asked to account for.
HRSA sends more PRF money, still reviewing Phase 4 applications
By
Joe Bush
Sep 14, 2022
The Health Resources and Services Administration disbursed $60 million in Phase 4 PRF funds to 293 providers, leaving approximately $1.6 billion still to be given out.
Ride to live, live to ride: Pine Point residents enjoy sunny sidecar trips
By
Joe Bush
Sep 28, 2022
Residents at Pine Point Center in Scarborough, ME, got the opportunity to be wild when recreation director Belinda Bantly set up a day of motorcycle rides earlier this month.
Pharmacist wary of feds relaxing nursing home vaccination process
By
Joe Bush
Dec 20, 2022
While nursing home advocates like LeadingAge and the American Health Care Association lauded last week’s federal loosening of restrictions on facilities giving COVID-19 booster shots in order to increase...
Pharmacists want bigger role after providing pandemic staffing boost
By
Joe Bush
Nov 09, 2022
Pharmacists are yearning to expand on their success helping skilled nursing facilities during the pandemic, a top executive said Monday.