CDC: Everyone over 6 months needs updated COVID vaccine
Jun 28, 2024
As a summer wave of COVID infections rolls across the country, US health officials have recommended that all Americans over the age of 6 months get one of the updated COVID vaccines when they become available...
CareTrust bullish on SNFs in what could be explosive year for growth
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 12, 2024
CareTrust REIT is holding a record stash of credit and cash, and company leaders said Friday they are about to unleash a wave of spending on primarily skilled nursing acquisitions.
The deep freeze
By
John Andrews
Feb 01, 2009
After a year in which economic conditions have shaken housing sectors to their roots, long-term care pundits continue searching for bright spots
Proposal to make NHSN reporting permanent bypasses provider concerns
By
Josh Henreckson
Jul 01, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would expand and extend COVID-era respiratory illness reporting requirements under a provision of the recently proposed Home Health Prospective Payment System...
Government inaction is neglect
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Jun 25, 2024
Some people look forward to spring for the warmer weather and daffodils. I love spring because the Cleveland International Film Festival comes around. I saw a movie this year called First We Bombed New...
With the ‘Wicked Witch’ of regulation dead, nursing home staffing rule could follow
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 30, 2024
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision Friday revoking broad deference to federal agencies is likely to bolster legal arguments against a federal nursing home staffing rule, experts told McKnight’s...
Workforce crisis in LTC: Is it a recruitment problem or a leadership problem?
By
Dana Weaver
Jun 28, 2024
Stop me if you have heard this one before. Senior care is suffering an unprecedented staffing crisis, and it’s not getting better no matter what leadership tries… Yes, you have heard this...
How to do it… Finance
Jan 03, 2011
Asking for a loan obviously is easier when one has an unblemished record. But what about the provider that has, for one reason or another, lost some of its leverage? There are still possibilities for how...
How to do it … Financing
Jan 02, 2013
Lenders today may be more open to lending capital than during the months following the nation’s 2008 economic collapse, but they’re also more scrutinizing. The times may be better than they...
Cigna fights nursing homes’ pending sale, citing potential for broken agreements
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Cigna has filed a legal motion objecting to the sale of a group of nursing homes as part of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The major insurer claims the sale would give the providers “carte blanche”...