CMS to address nursing home reforms on Thursday call
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James M. Berklan
Mar 04, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold its next National Nursing Home Stakeholder Call at 3 p.m. ET Thursday (March 10). The agenda figures to be loaded.
Nursing homes and the welcoming of reforms
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James M. Berklan
Mar 03, 2022
Long-term care operators should actually welcome many of the reforms proposed by the administration this week.
Biden targets ‘Wall Street’ nursing home owners in SOTU address
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James M. Berklan
Mar 02, 2022
Nursing home providers bracing for criticism during President Biden’s first State of the Union speech Tuesday night got it, but they were likely relieved his comments were less extensive than many had...
Marquis-Consonus’ Steve Fogg: ‘Creative’ funding, education will pave route to success
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James M. Berklan
Feb 07, 2022
Even some of the most progressive long-term care executives have had to put deep, strategic initiatives aside while coping with historically challenging pandemic conditions.
Editor’s Desk | A vivid reminder how we’re all in this together
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James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2022
When word spread in early September about a trio of Maine nursing homes announcing their pending closures, a lot of media outlets and special interest groups put a spotlight on them.
BREAKING (Updated): High Court grills attorneys over worker COVID vaccination mandates (live)
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Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Jan 07, 2022
The Supreme Court should issue a stay and allow a federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers to go into effect immediately because “any delay in implementing that requirement would cause preventable...
This is (really!) it. Wednesday is final deadline for 2022 Women of Distinction entries
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James M. Berklan
Jan 07, 2022
The final entry period for the 2022 McKnight’s Women of Distinction awards program arrives at midnight Wednesday. That still leaves plenty of time to fill out the basic entry form as a way to gain some...
BREAKING: CMS clarifies nursing homes may put some limits on visitors
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James M. Berklan
Dec 23, 2021
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday acknowledged “very limited and rare exceptions” that would allow nursing homes to restrict some visits.
BREAKING: Supreme Court speeds vax mandates to Jan. 7 hearing
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James M. Berklan
Dec 22, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court took the unusual step of announcing Wednesday night that it would hear arguments over the administration’s COVID-19 worker vaccine mandate on Jan. 7, three days before it was originally...
Supreme Court denies religious challenge to NY vaccine mandate
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James M. Berklan
Dec 14, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that New York can proceed with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for nursing home employees and other healthcare workers even though it does not grant religious exemptions.