Researchers identify weak links in nursing homes’ COVID defense
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 07, 2023
Vaccination rates for COVID-19 for nightshift workers in nursing homes significantly lag their dayshift counterparts, creating a higher-risk environment for residents and other staff, according to new...
Increasing skilled mix fuels Ensign growth
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 06, 2023
Ensign Group notched another record quarter for earnings and an eighth consecutive quarter of overall occupancy growth, company leaders reported during a Friday earnings call covering 2022 year-end results.
Bipartisan bills address hospital backlogs with nursing home pay
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Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 06, 2023
Unable to attract enough workers to meet staffing minimums, many nursing homes across the US have closed wings or units or restricted new admissions over the past year. Washington may get a reprieve.
Former Atrium CEO, operator charged in $407 million fraud scheme
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 03, 2023
An operator behind Atrium Health and Senior Living and a former top executive were indicted Wednesday on an extensive list of healthcare fraud, tax fraud and money laundering offenses, the Department of...
LTC facilities scramble for more funding as state budgets get hammered out
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Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 03, 2023
Budget season has kicked off in state legislatures, and nursing home providers and advocates are at the front of the line desperately asking for increases in Medicaid rates.
‘Critical access’ not at critical mass, but skilled nursing providers push on
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 02, 2023
Support for the concept of critical access nursing homes is growing among providers, but it has yet to gain much traction among industry leaders or the politicians who would need to create such a safety...
Skilled nursing angst, grit emerge after PHE end date announced
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James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2023
Nursing home leaders were scrambling to understand the full implications of the newly announced end to the public health emergency while also making plans to fight the return of some less flexible conditions.
6 Iowa long-term care facilities put into receivership, transfers in motion
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 01, 2023
Nursing home operators and advocates across the country are desperately asking for legislative and regulatory relief, but any help that may come will be too late for six long-term care facilities that...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Feb. 1
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2023
GA, DE identify nurses with fraudulent licenses in national scheme, questions remain about roles … Union ‘sounds alarm’ over 2-year delay in staffing penalties; short-staffed providers embrace it...
Speciality care use falls after nursing home admission: report
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 30, 2023
Visits drop steeply across multiple specialties after a nursing home admission, investigators say. For those with severe mental illness, visits fell by a whopping 67%.