Long-term care leaders have a moral responsibility to address racial inequities in facilities, influential...
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 10, 2020
The pandemic is forcing long-term care leaders and operators to address and help alleviate racial disparities often found and perpetuated throughout the healthcare industry, a well-known academic and leader...
‘Big, big changes’ coming to nursing home regulation thanks to pandemic’s destruction, Grabowski...
By
Liza Berger
Nov 16, 2020
Because of the devastation COVID-19 has wrought on nursing homes, regulatory changes likely are coming, according to a highly respected long-term care researcher.
Don’t shelve rapid tests as COVID cases climb, advocates implore nursing homes
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 03, 2020
Industry advocates say it’s time for facility operators who have not made full use of rapid antigen tests to start doing so — before nursing home deaths begin to spike again. CMS must “take to...
CNA staffing, turnover will be a top focus, federal official vows
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 21, 2020
Turnover among certified nursing assistants at long-term care facilities will be a top priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services going forward, a top agency official pledged Tuesday.
Keeping workers will be biggest struggle for nursing homes as pandemic persists, national policy expert...
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 30, 2020
Workforce challenges that have plagued long-term care operators during the coronavirus pandemic will get worse as the crisis further progresses this year, one of the nation’s top health policy analysts...
Providers seek ‘roadmap’ to more funding, better national response via nursing home commission report
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 17, 2020
Leading nursing home stakeholders hope that an expansive report by the government’s national nursing home commission will lead to a better national response and more support for nursing homes responding...
Experts make case for allowing more family-member visits in nursing homes
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 14, 2020
Long-term care facilities should reconsider their restrictive visitation policies aimed at ensuring the well-being of residents during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, according to several experts.
Poor staffing in LTC was the ‘gasoline to COVID-19’s match,’ witness testifies at House hearing
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 26, 2020
Several expert witnesses called for the federal government to address inadequate staffing at nursing homes and long-term care facilities in wake of the coronavirus pandemic and its fatal toll on residents...
‘Federal government needs to own’ COVID-19 issues, better help nursing homes, expert says
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 15, 2020
Federal authorities need to stop the blame game and take more responsibility getting vital testing, protective equipment and other needed elements to nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, a leading...
Quit treating pandemic’s toll on nursing homes like a ‘bad apples’ problem, expert...
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 14, 2020
It’s time for the federal government to “own” the problem of containing COVID-19 by paying for and arranging testing across nursing facilities, long-term care policy expert David Grabowski...