The impact of survey delays on nursing home quality and consumer information
By
Steven Littlehale
May 24, 2024
In a column published by McKnight’s in December 2023, “Revamping CMS Survey Data Integration Amid Regulatory Lag in Nursing Home Oversight,” I urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Is this the end of the line for nursing homes?
By
Irving Stackpole
John Sheridan
Jun 24, 2024
There are markets for just about everything, where sellers and buyers exchange goods and services. The same is true for nursing homes.
First staffing mandate deadline nears, bringing compliance and legal threats: AHCA VP warns
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2024
Skilled nursing providers cannot “blow off” a fast-approaching requirement to update their facility assessments using new elements, a sector top advocate warned
Ask the legal expert … about drug diversion
By
Norris Cunningham
Jun 07, 2024
Is it true that high turnover among nurses increases the risk of drug diversion?
Looking to REITs for a loan? Opportunities may be short-lived if interest rates move downward
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 20, 2024
Higher interest rates that have made it harder for many providers to find capital from traditional sources are also motivating more real estate investment firms to move into lending.
‘Moment of decision’ appears near on nursing home staffing rule
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2024
A two-day spate of legislative action opposing the nursing home staffing mandate has some staunch supporters of the requirements feeling “very concerned” about the rule’s future.
Study: Discharging COVID-positive patients into SNFs from hospitals raised cases, deaths in early pandemic
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 03, 2024
There were more preventable cases and deaths when older adults who were treated at hospitals for COVID-19 were transferred to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) accepting positive patients compared to facilities...
In Washington to champion skilled nursing, providers pick up another anti-staffing mandate measure in...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2024
Federal lawmakers continue to look for ways to reverse a staffing rule that demands nursing homes hire more than 102,000 new staff members, with fresh promises Monday to pursue several paths forward.
GAO review of long-term care ombudsman programs eerily echoes providers’ own concerns
By
Josh Henreckson
May 24, 2024
Many of the same problems facing long-term care operators across the country have also increasingly arisen as obstacles for state long-term care ombudsman programs in recent years, according to a report...
Nearly half of PA nursing home operators plan to close or sell at least one facility, signaling worsening...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 05, 2024
Pressures from high staffing requirements and lagging Medicaid reimbursement rates are reaching a new and concerning peak in Pennsylvania, according to provider surveys published by the largest for-profit...