Biden administration to invest $1.5 billion into healthcare workforce … VA begins publicly reporting overall COVID cases, deaths at veteran nursing homes … $50 million investment in long-term care...
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Jan 24, 2022
Skyline, former nursing home chain owners now accused of $59.6 million fraud scheme in Nebraska … Michigan auditor says it’s not fair to say officials underreported COVID-19 long-term care deaths...
NY nursing home landlord, former operators to pay $7.2M in False Claims settlement
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2023
The landlord of an upstate New York nursing home and the unlicensed operators who ran the facility for years before its 2021 closure have agreed to pay nearly $7.2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.
$2.8M lawsuit challenges competitor’s nonprofit status
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2019
A nursing home operator in Arkansas has taken aim at the Community Compassion Center brand, alleging in court that the competitor running those facilities is using nonprofit status to avoid accountability. ...
Lawsuit is bold reminder of states’ ownership blindspot
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 01, 2022
New York’s lawsuit targets the people and mechanisms that might have allowed low quality to take root. But it’s all of skilled nursing that suffers.
The witch hunt is on, good nursing homes be damned
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 07, 2024
The threat, to both “bad actors” and well-meaning providers who get caught up in the rush to accuse, is only going to grow if the government has its way.
States must know more about ownership before licensing, state auditor general recommends
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 24, 2019
Despite “tremendous progress” since 2016, Pennsylvania’s nursing homes need more stringent licensing procedures and a better survey process, a new auditor general report finds.
The perpetrators of a $900 million healthcare scam targeted nursing homes and other facilities where seniors lived, looking for Medicare patients whom they could dupe into receiving expensive wound care...
Major expansion dings bond rating
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 10, 2019
Citing a large expansion and planned capital expenditures, Fitch has assigned a BB rating to more than $140 million in bonds issued on behalf of Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest and downgraded...
In major rebrand, Golden Living becomes Brickyard Healthcare
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 09, 2022
Golden LivingCenters is changing its name to Brickyard Healthcare in a major rebrand that will better reflect the company’s deepened ties to Indiana, the company announced Monday.