Long-term care providers took their campaign against $1 billion in proposed Medicaid cuts to new heights Friday, teaming with sympathetic community groups, lawmakers and even unions to protest at seven...
McKnight’s Spring Online Expo arrives Wednesday
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James M. Berklan
Mar 22, 2024
The 2024 McKnight’s Spring Online Expo takes place Wednesday (March 27) and will feature two outstanding educational webinars and the opportunity to earn up to two free continuing education credits. ...
Provider sues agency for routine overbilling, unscrupulous practices that led to $5M bill
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 21, 2024
A multi-facility skilled nursing operator has filed a lawsuit against the staffing platform Nursa, alleging the app-based agency routinely overbilled for staff that failed to show up for shifts and refused...
Nursing home staff, others fear CDC revisions to airborne transmission guidelines
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Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Mar 21, 2024
Workers worry that the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of guidelines that hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities that provide health care will apply to control...
Youth-led art program creates lasting connections with nursing home residents in 5 states
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 19, 2024
Today’s seniors and young adults may have grown up in completely different eras of music and media, but one growing program is proving that art can be a powerful bridge between generations.
AARP: 4 years later, COVID-19 still rages in nursing homes
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Even as nursing home cases and deaths related to COVID-19 are declining, a recent analysis finds the virus is still wreaking havoc in long-term care settings.
Nursing homes turn away people recovering from opioid addiction, report finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
Skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island got the attention of Americans with Disabilities Act advocates when they refused to admit people coming out of hospitals after treatment for opioid addiction,...
Clinical briefs for Monday, March 18
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 18, 2024
FDA approves first drug for type of liver disease … Study: Healthy diet slows aging, protects against dementia … Docs find microplastics in some patients’ artery plaque … Prescription copay programs...
PACS reveals strategy behind its move to go public
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 15, 2024
PACS Group this week filed to become a publicly traded company, a move the giant long-term care company is promising will allow it to add to its explosive growth in coming years.
BREAKING: PACS nursing home group files for public offering
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 14, 2024
PACS Group, a Utah-based nursing home operator that has quickly become one of the nation’s largest, filed the required paperwork Wednesday to become a public company.