Industry and legal experts are expressing confidence in a lawsuit filed last week that aims to kill a federal nursing home staffing mandate, with some boldly predicting a fairly straight-forward defeat...
States with nursing home direct-care spending rules grapple with complex costs
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Josh Henreckson
May 23, 2024
At a time when staffing and funding regulations for nursing homes are ramping up at both the state and federal levels, one state is reconsidering its demands on long-term care spending.
Social factors linked to disparities in rehab services for critically ill older adults
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Donna Shryer
May 12, 2024
A recent study confirmed the link between social determinants of health (SDOH), such as dual Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, rural residence and limited English proficiency, and reduced delivery of...
Judge clears way for new Petersen Health financing as bankruptcy advances
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Kimberly Marselas
Josh Henreckson
May 16, 2024
Petersen Health Care can borrow $45 million while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy to maintain operations at its nursing homes and make the properties more appealing to potential buyers, a federal bankruptcy judge...
Staffing rule financial penalties could be ‘existential’ crisis for nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
May 21, 2024
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published a laundry list of possible enforcement actions for nursing homes that fail to meet new staffing requirements, providers can only wonder...
Recruiting, retention strategies shared by McKnight’s Women of Distinction
By
Foster Stubbs
May 16, 2024
“Hire the right people, and hire them as quickly as possible.”
Nursing home workers praised for roles in harrowing tornado evacuation
By
Josh Henreckson
May 13, 2024
Staff members of Barnsdall Nursing Home were quick to jump into action during a tornado that damaged their Barnsdall, OK, long-term care facility Monday night and forced a full evacuation in the aftermath....
Technology, advocacy required to empower workers in LTC, healthcare’s ‘hardest setting’
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Kimberly Marselas
May 20, 2024
Facing the reality that most new nurses don’t choose to enter geriatrics, skilled nursing and senior living leaders are both going back to the basics and seizing on innovation to grow their direct care...
Staffing mandate costs estimated at $6.5B annually, with 1 in 4 residents at risk of displacement, AHCA...
By
Josh Henreckson
May 10, 2024
The federal staffing mandate handed down by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cost the long-term care sector $6.5 billion each year, according to analyses from the American Health Care...
‘No time to mislead the public’ on nursing homes, Biden told; experts offer solutions
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Josh Henreckson
May 06, 2024
The Biden administration should stop its “incendiary descriptions” of the long-term care sector and focus instead on collaborative policy solutions, scolded LeadingAge president and CEO Katie Smith...