Balancing act: Dementia care needs to change for safe integration
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 12, 2024
The quality of life tradeoffs incurred due to tight safety protocols and isolation of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic demand more research and policy changes.
Picketing workers seek receiver for troubled nursing home
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2023
A union representing workers at a nursing home already under investigation for fraud are calling on the state to place the facility in receivership, alleging that the owners are revoking workers’ healthcare...
‘Historically high’ overdose and suicide rates requires aggressive, holistic approach in skilled...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 25, 2024
Long-term care residents are experiencing “historically high” overdose and suicide rates related to mental health and substance use disorder. Addressing those overlapping trends will require holistic...
The ‘chameleon’ effect: How major nursing home players are transforming for scale
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 16, 2024
Providers looking to scale their skilled nursing businesses face an uphill battle in an economic and regulatory environment that is chewing up even some of the sector’s best-known operators.
Former union head leads state board able to set wages without funding them
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Sep 18, 2023
The newly appointed head of Minnesota’s Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board managed Gov. Tim Walz’s campaign and headed up political operations for several labor unions but appears to have no experience...
Nursing home struggles expected to worsen hospital backlogs
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 04, 2024
Nursing homes’ familiar struggles with insufficient staffing and insurance reimbursements are contributing to growing backlogs of patients awaiting throughput from hospitals to post-acute care across...
Court doubles monitors in $83 million fraud case and nursing homes double down on defense
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 31, 2023
New York prosecutors successfully petitioned the courts for a preliminary injunction that requires a nursing home company accused of committing more than $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud to pay...
Long-term care providers clamor for innovation to avert closing shop
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 23, 2024
Among struggling nursing homes, the share of facilities closing jumped significantly during the main pandemic years, even as the percent selling to for-profit organizations declined.
State CNA program targeting 6,000 new young workers to fight staffing crisis
By
Josh Henreckson
Jan 23, 2024
A new certified nursing assistant recruitment program aims to attract thousands of new, young care workers with a variety of incentives that could create a sustainable pipeline into the long-term care...
Nursing home staff, others fear CDC revisions to airborne transmission guidelines
By
Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Mar 21, 2024
Workers worry that the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of guidelines that hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities that provide health care will apply to control...