The LeadingAge Center for Workforce Solutions has released an Excel-based turnover cost calculator tool to help providers estimate how much staff turnover is costing their community. The organization notes...
Retired nurses ‘reluctant’ to join coronavirus battle
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Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has brought pleas from across the country for retired nurses, doctors and other clinicians to re-engage to help alleviate staffing shortages.
COVID-19 song lightens mood
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Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
Singing to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It,” Maryland-based operator Nexion Health used a music video to help raise awareness on how providers can prevent the spread of COVID-19 in their...
Providers: Death total would rise if nursing homes forced to admit COVID-19 patients
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Danielle Brown
Mar 30, 2020
Providers are taking a stand against efforts that call on nursing homes to accept all discharged hospital patients regardless of their COVID-19 status as a means to increase bed capacity at hospitals.
CMS granting providers advanced Medicare payments
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Danielle Brown
Mar 30, 2020
Providers responding to the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak will now be able to receive accelerated and advanced Medicare payments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Saturday. The...
$2T stimulus package a good first step, but more ‘likely’ needed, long-term care leaders say
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Danielle Brown
Mar 27, 2020
Providers are calling a $2 trillion economic stimulus package a good first step but quickly add that long-term care operators are going to need a bigger slice for an adequate coronavirus response.
Experts expect COVID-19 to create surge of post-acute residents, more staffing woes
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Danielle Brown
Mar 27, 2020
Staffing will be “key” for post-acute care providers in the coming weeks, especially during an expected surge of residents recovering from the novel 2019 coronavirus, experts say in a new viewpoint...
A 5-star New Jersey nursing and assisted living facility was evacuated Wednesday after two dozen residents and five staff members tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus.
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Lawmakers’ $2T stimulus package includes nursing homes slice; COVID-plagued SNF stops spread, rebuffs...
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Danielle Brown
Mar 26, 2020
Nursing home providers may see tougher infection-control standards thanks to provisions of a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus congressional deal formed in response to the coronavirus pandemic.