MASSACHUSETTS — A majority of voters are in favor of a ballot initiative that would increase Medicaid funding for nursing homes in Massachusetts.
State News
Jul 01, 2013
Connecticut — The National Labor Relations Board has sued HealthBridge Management for contempt of court, marking the latest development in a long-running dispute.
Nursing home residents risk losing bed holds
Sep 01, 2011
Ongoing Medicaid program cuts have now led to a game of musical chairs in the state’s nursing homes, which no longer can hold the room of a resident who is temporarily hospitalized or leaves to visit...
State News
Nov 01, 2013
ARIZONA — U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) has put forward a bill that would allow government funding for veteran nursing homes built on Native American tribal land.
Sentence for resident death
Apr 01, 2020
Ohio — A former Ohio nursing home worker was sentenced to two years of community control, plus added conditions, for her role in a patient’s death that occurred after a fall.
Four facilities closing
Nov 14, 2019
Nebraska — Azria Health announced it’s closing four nursing homes in Nebraska due to poor financial performance. The nursing homes were set to close by the end of November. The closures will...
State News: City plans to seek compensation for burned out former nursing home
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jan 04, 2019
ILLINOIS — After volunteers spent days during the summer decorating windows at a vacant nursing home, the building burned in a December fire.
State news: Governor might soften proposed Medicaid cuts
Apr 01, 2011
MINNESOTA–Just days after approving expansion of the state’s Medicaid rolls by 95,000 people in mid-February, Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled a fiscal budget that would cut Medicaid payments for...
Suit alleges that officials misused COVID-19 relief intended for nursing homes; accuses state of using...
Feb 01, 2021
Long-term care providers in Pennsylvania have accused the state of withholding more than $150 million in federal funding meant to support nursing homes during the public health crisis.
State News for January 2016
Jan 04, 2016
MINNESOTA — Nearly 600 nursing assistants will be required to retake a certification test due to “suspicious” patterns in the results.