Meet Cassie Mistretta, 2022 Hall of Honor inductee
By
C. Max Bachmann
Aug 02, 2022
Editor’s Note: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care are profiling the McKnight’s 2022 Women of Distinction honorees daily July 5 through Aug. 11....
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, April 30
By
Kristen Fischer
Apr 30, 2024
Losing items doesn’t always indicate poor memory … 15 generics saved Medicare about $15 billion from 2015 to 2021 … Healthy lifestyle could offset life-shortening genes … EHR tool combats health...
Nursing home thrust into controversy after dangling KitchenAid prize for 5-star reviews
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Josh Henreckson
Dec 14, 2023
Nursing homes are always under pressure to receive stellar online reviews. But the aggressive tactics of one Massachusetts facility has raised questions of how far they should go to get 5-star reviews. ...
Meet Sara Terry, 2022 Hall of Honor inductee
By
Nicole Blanchard
Aug 08, 2022
Editor’s Note: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care are profiling the McKnight’s 2022 Women of Distinction honorees daily July 5 through Aug. 10....
BREAKING: PACS nursing home group files for public offering
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 14, 2024
PACS Group, a Utah-based nursing home operator that has quickly become one of the nation’s largest, filed the required paperwork Wednesday to become a public company.
Shuttered nursing home avoids class action in understaffing lawsuit
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2023
While sympathetic to nursing home residents’ claims that they received “deficient” care, a federal judge has ruled their case cannot be certified as a class action because claims and damages related...
BREAKING: AHCA files lawsuit to dismiss nursing home staffing rule
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to throw out the national nursing home staffing mandate, charging that it exceeds the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and that it “creates...
McKnight’s Women of Distinction Class of 2024 welcomes 15 Rising Stars
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 13, 2024
Fifteen “Rising Stars” working in senior living, skilled nursing or home care have been named 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction honorees, program organizers announced Tuesday.
LTC Properties had its strongest investment year since 2015, company leaders said Thursday, with Chairman and CEO Wendy Simpson touting $170 million in annual investment as proof of a “hard-won positive...
MedPAC members rip ‘brute force test’ of staffing mandate, ponder consequences and possible gaming
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2023
A key Congressional advisory panel expressed deep skepticism Thursday over the proposed federal nursing home staffing mandate and whether it would address ongoing quality concerns in the post-acute care...