While consumers continue to flock to MA plans for their zero-dollar premiums and appealing supplemental benefits, skilled nursing providers may feel like their long-running complaints about the plans’...
Mood of the Market Part 4: Skilled nursing operators still down about inflation
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 15, 2023
While the rate of inflation has cooled considerably this year, very few nursing home leaders are experiencing any relief, according to results of the 2023 McKnight’s Mood of the Market survey.
Fueling growth through local leadership approach: Providence Group’s Jason Murray
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 27, 2023
Using a model that invests in strong administrators and frees them to lead locally, Providence Group has edged itself into position as one the nation’s five largest nursing home operators over the last...
The MDS on Christmas vacation: ‘It’s a beaut Clark, it’s a beaut!’
By
Joel VanEaton
Nov 28, 2023
I love this time of year. Christmas is on its way. I especially love the holiday movie classics, “A Christmas Story,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” “White Christmas,”...
‘Hand-to-hand combat’ for workers, strict no-agency policy improve quality and workforce: PruittHealth...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 24, 2023
PruittHealth this spring picked up seven more awards recognizing its quality efforts, but the number of residents who have access to the Georgia-based provider’s innovative and expanding post-acute services...
Fogg clears the air on skilled nursing ‘tailwinds’
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 26, 2023
The headwinds for skilled nursing operators are significantly more numerous than the potential tailwinds, but there are reasons for provider optimism.
Even as prevalence shrinks, PE chaos tarnishes nursing home sector
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2023
The plight of a private-equity backed, multi-state nursing home chain demonstrates the ugly challenges operators could face as officials ratchet up regulatory and transparency pressures and large-scale...
The carrot vs. the stick
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2022
As many states have moved to tighten regulations in lockstep with the federal focus on nursing home reform, there’s often been an unexpected guest at the negotiating table.
The introduction of a Senate bill intended to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its proposed nursing home staffing mandate was met roundly with applause from providers...
Providers: Staffing rule a CMS ‘fairy tale’ that will ‘exacerbate’ nursing home access issue
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 23, 2024
Despite minor concessions in a staffing mandate issued Monday, many nursing home providers were shell-shocked by what they saw as federal regulators’ intractable stance on minimums at a time when nearly...