A must-attend webinar on the Patient Drive Payment Model will present an executive review of the key data and compliance issues. The CE-available session starts at 1 p.m. ET Oct. 14 and features well-known...
You’re too good for your own good
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 02, 2020
In this pandemic year of profound challenges, we discovered innovation and creativity like no other.
Infection rates trigger relief pay
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2020
Nursing homes are subject to an incentive-based pay system for the last four months of 2020 when it comes to tapping into the most recently released $2 billion in COVID-19 relief funding, the Department...
New testing mandates could cost up to $15K each week
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2020
Larger nursing homes could be on the hook for as much as another $15,000 per week to comply with newly announced COVID-19 testing requirements for staff members, LeadingAge warned in a mid-September report.
Dreaded MFAR withdrawn
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2020
Providers got their wish in mid-August when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it was rescinding a controversial proposal that would have cut up to $50 billion annually nationwide from...
‘Confounded’ providers urge mandated COVID-19 testing for hospital workers, surveyors
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 01, 2020
Healthcare stakeholders who regularly come into contact with skilled nursing residents should be subject to COVID-19 testing mandates similar to those for nursing home employees, a prominent long-term...
REIT leader: ‘Even more bullish than before’ on skilled nursing
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 29, 2020
Census pressure and uncertainties caused by COVID-19 continue to threaten the nursing home industry. But at least one major real estate investment trust CEO sees this period as a time of good opportunity...
AHCA/NCAL preparing for Oct. 8-31 online annual conference
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 25, 2020
The nation’s largest nursing home association has developed a full, modified annual conference schedule in response to having to move the event online due to the pandemic. Sessions will be available...
Life Care Centers President Beecher Hunter calls it a (second) career
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 25, 2020
Beecher Hunter, the president of Life Care Centers of America for the last 14 years, will retire from his post overseeing the chain’s 208 nursing homes on Nov. 2. He will remain in an advisory role until...
33rd annual NADONA conference gearing up — a new way
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 18, 2020
The 2020 NADONA meeting will be held online Nov. 4, 5 and 10-12, with pre-conference workshops Nov. 2.