Nursing Staff at continuing care retirement communities continue to enjoy significant pay increases and sign-on bonuses in 2024 — though a slight cooling of pay increases has carried over from 2023,...
Feds’ latest regulatory wish list hits skilled nursing but could face new obstacles
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 08, 2024
The Department of Health and Human Services is making plans to expand reporting requirements for nursing homes in the event of crimes against residents. The agency also aims to propose a long-awaited update...
Beleaguered Petersen Health lands $136M in bids for its nursing homes
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 08, 2024
A group of four successful bidders is set to buy the assets of major Midwest senior care provider Petersen Health Care, for a total price tag of $136 million.
Pushing the boundaries of care and geography: Sun Mar’s changing regional reputation
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 05, 2024
Three years after joining Sun Mar Healthcare, President Josh Kochek is leaning on years of perspective from the other side of the dealmaking table to expand and transform the California brand.
Even as COVID cases rise, nursing homes losing ground on vaccinations
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 05, 2024
Residents of long-term care facilities are falling further behind in their COVID-19 vaccinations — with the gap being driven by a combination of logistical challenges and increasing skepticism from the...
‘Avalanche’ of healthcare, other legal challenges likely with unraveling of regulatory agency authority
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 02, 2024
A trio of high-profile Supreme Court decisions will likely lead to an “avalanche” of new cases challenging the authority of federal health regulators and other agencies, testing judges’ expertise...
Reconsider ‘extreme’ expansion of civil monetary penalties: LTC coalition to CMS
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 02, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw a planned civil monetary penalty expansion, a coalition of leading long-term care organizations argues in a new joint letter to the agency’s...
CMS to post more nursing home ownership data, facility health data for first time when it unfreezes star...
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James M. Berklan
Jul 01, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday that it will begin posting certain nursing home ownership information, as well as aggregated MDS data for all residents at a facility, both...
Proposal to make NHSN reporting permanent bypasses provider concerns
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 01, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would expand and extend COVID-era respiratory illness reporting requirements under a provision of the recently proposed Home Health Prospective Payment System...
With the ‘Wicked Witch’ of regulation dead, nursing home staffing rule could follow
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2024
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision Friday revoking broad deference to federal agencies is likely to bolster legal arguments against a federal nursing home staffing rule, experts told McKnight’s...