More than 3,000 nursing homes earn top rating from U.S. News & World Report
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 27, 2020
Good staffing measures and patient outcomes were among the common denominators for the more than 3,200 facilities ranked as top providers in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes ratings.
Report: Facilities grew in size, number of residents from 1977 to 1999
By
Haymarket Media
May 12, 2005
As nursing homes have grown in size so has the overall number of residents. But residents are staying for a shorter length of time than they used to and more are getting discharged.
CMS: First reforms will address ownership accountability, worst performing facilities
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 11, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is on a “full court sprint” toward issuing new guidance and regulations to go with President Biden’s plans for nursing home reform, officials said Thursday.
Staffing requirements could cost NY facilities $325 million more
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 31, 2022
New York nursing homes would have to shell out an additional $325 million in order to meet a new minimum state staffing requirement set to be enforced starting Friday, according to a new analysis.
Platform designed to connect nursing homes and hospitals for nursing shifts
Oct 03, 2017
Praos Health Inc., based in Austin, TX, launched a platform designed to connect hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies with nurses to staff shifts.
Short-staffing a core claim in trial concerning resident’s death, alleged cover-up
By
Haymarket Media
Mar 31, 2004
An administrator accused of short-staffing her nursing facility and then allegedly covering up circumstances of an Alzheimer’s resident’s death has been ordered to stand trial for involuntary...
10 Highest/Lowest: Percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized within 30 days
By
Raul Valdes-Perez, Ph.D
May 01, 2019
A look at the states with the highest and lowest percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized within 30 days after a SNF admission.
SNF donates baby food amid national shortage
By
Nicole Blanchard
Jul 07, 2022
Castle Healthcare, a management consulting company that operates eight skilled nursing facilities in Indiana, recently organized a baby food donation initiative to help ease the anxiety of staff and residents...
Providers brace for new 5-Star era
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 19, 2019
Highly anticipated changes to the federal Five-Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes are set to kick in Wednesday, which is when a freeze on survey results will expire
Shorter skilled care stays tied to higher readmission risk, study finds
By
Marty Stempniak
Apr 04, 2019
Nearly a quarter of all heart failure patients experiencing shorter stays in skilled nursing facilities are readmitted to hospitals within 30 days, researchers have found.