90-year-old nursing home guts long-term care amid ‘unsustainable’ Medicaid funding
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 19, 2024
Faced with steep Medicaid reimbursement shortfalls, one 90-year-old facility believes its only way forward is to cut back more than half of its available long-term care beds.
Meet Capital Funding Group’s Jack Dwyer, 2023 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards ‘Business Partner’...
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Kimberly Hartley
Apr 20, 2023
Sure, Jack Dwyer has financed more than $16 billion in deals for the senior living and care industry since starting Capital Funding Group in 1993 as a one-stop-shop financing solution. But how many other...
Paul Ryan, Phil Fogg headline NIC annual fall conference Oct. 23-25
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 18, 2023
Registration is in full swing for the annual NIC fall conference, which takes place Oct. 23-25 at the Sheraton Grand Chicago.
Excessive daytime sleepiness predicts mortality in nursing home residents
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 16, 2023
Excessive daytime sleepiness predicts both mortality and the presence of age-related comorbidities in the long-stay nursing home population, investigators report.
Telehealth addresses multiple care barriers for stroke survivors, review shows
By
Alicia Lasek
Mar 31, 2023
Telehealth care for patients living with stroke provides benefits across a range of functional complications and social determinants of health, researchers report.
‘Crying wolf’ or dying breed? Incentives often ignore plight of rural skilled nursing operators
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2024
As hundreds of nursing homes have shuttered in the last few years, the very strategies meant to prop up the sector have often left the most isolated, resource-strapped facilities with nothing gained.
A new kind of power play for a regional player: Guardian Healthcare’s Michael Herald
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 13, 2023
In a variation on the idea that you have to give up power to gain strength, regional skilled care provider Guardian Healthcare is actively working to decentralize its operations.
‘We will not go back’ to early pandemic restriction, CMS leader says
By
Kimberly Marselas
Joe Bush
Oct 17, 2022
Promoting a return to normalcy, a top CMS official said Sunday that nursing homes will not return to the stringent isolation policies of the early pandemic.
Ability to cope linked to longevity in study on older men
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 27, 2024
The effort that older men use to cope with stressful situations is more effective in terms of longevity than the individual strategies they employ, according to a study published March 19 in the Journals...
Petersen bankruptcy likely to involve selling facilities to multiple buyers: lawyer
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 26, 2024
Long-term care operator Petersen Health Care said it lis likely to sell off blocks of its facilities as part of its efforts to restructure and pay its debts after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last...