Medicaid and leadership challenges, as state takes over nursing home
By
Jessica R. Towhey
May 17, 2023
A Rhode Island nursing home with more than 30 citations for deficiencies and whose administrator’s license was suspended last month has been put into state receivership.
Tech toys
Jan 30, 2008
The nation’s top lawmakers are learning more about new monitoring, personal health record and brain fitness technologies for seniors during a special briefing and demonstration today.Senators from...
Wither the County Home?
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 02, 2013
With funding and philosophical challenges permeating their day-to-day operations, a
dwindling number of county-run nursing homes find themselves at a perilous crossroads
BREAKING 2: It’s official: Nursing homes must vaccinate employees or lose Medicaid, Medicare funding
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 18, 2021
President Joe Biden announced late Wednesday afternoon that U.S. nursing homes must use workers vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing vital Medicare and Medicaid funding.
State News
Apr 01, 2013
A four-person review panel would have to approve civil malpractice lawsuits against long-term care providers before the claims could go to court, under a bill that recently passed the state senate in Kentucky.
American Senior Communities’ Donna Kelsey: Recruiting partners and investing in the future
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2022
Investments in innovation and a willingness to forge new partnerships will help lift skilled nursing providers out of the COVID-era, predicts veteran nursing homes leader Donna Kelsey.