In Washington to champion skilled nursing, providers pick up another anti-staffing mandate measure in...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 04, 2024
Federal lawmakers continue to look for ways to reverse a staffing rule that demands nursing homes hire more than 102,000 new staff members, with fresh promises Monday to pursue several paths forward.
‘Daunting’ concerns about nursing home cost escalation dominate 2025 pay rule comments
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Josh Henreckson
May 29, 2024
Hundreds of providers are making one last attempt to increase pay rates and limit potential financial penalties of the proposed nursing home pay rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’...
New staffing specialists seen as opportunity to turn the tide on retention, onboarding
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 06, 2024
Faced with staffing and retention challenges so common in long-term care, a group of 16 nursing homes is trying a fresh approach: hiring an onboarding and retention specialist to manage the employee experience...
CareOne, HealthBridge ordered to pay 12 years’ back wages to striking workers they replaced
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Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2024
The owner and manager of six Connecticut nursing homes must pay up to 700 former employees replaced during a 2012 strike for up to 12 years of back pay, a federal judge ruled this week.
The rise of the CXO, CPO and other HR execs transforming the nursing home employee experience
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 02, 2024
CareRite is using an approach more skilled nursing and senior living organizations appear to be embracing: elevating human resources to an executive-level position and giving them the support needed to...
Last-ditch effort to convert license fails to save historic nursing home
By
Josh Henreckson
May 24, 2024
Months of grassroots fundraising, government advocacy and even a last-minute plan to transfer skilled nursing beds and eligible residents to a new assisted living memory care wing have not been enough...
First staffing mandate deadline nears, bringing compliance and legal threats: AHCA VP warns
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2024
Skilled nursing providers cannot “blow off” a fast-approaching requirement to update their facility assessments using new elements, a sector top advocate warned
Widely used ‘secrecy’ clauses under fire in nursing home arbitration case
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
Arizona’s attorney general is attempting to intervene in a civil lawsuit against a nursing home, arguing the facility’s attempt to compel arbitration and enforce a “secrecy clause” makes a signed...
Inside the historic fight for more drug addiction services in nursing homes
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2024
With drug overdoses among seniors surging to historic levels, nursing homes will undoubtedly be drawn further into the world of addiction treatment.
‘Moment of decision’ appears near on nursing home staffing rule
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 06, 2024
A two-day spate of legislative action opposing the nursing home staffing mandate has some staunch supporters of the requirements feeling “very concerned” about the rule’s future.