‘Alarming’ nurse turnover rates linked to quality, payment woes in major new nursing home study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 02, 2021
Skilled nursing’s employee turnover problem — long linked to issues with quality of care — is much worse than previously reported, according to a massive analysis published Monday.
Therapy carnage at start of PDPM not as severe as feared: study
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 02, 2021
The first academic study of its kind has found that the first three months of nursing homes’ overhauled Medicare payment system at the end of 2019 led to a distinct drop-off in the employed number of...
Industry may ‘never be the same’ without increases in Medicaid reimbursement, advisors warn
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 19, 2021
Increased state Medicaid reimbursement is necessary if providers ever hope to improve their financial and operational outlooks, a new analysis by advisory firm Marcum LLP suggests.
OnPointe CEO: Pandemic should be catalyst for payment changes, shedding ‘wrong strategy’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 29, 2021
Some look at the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and question how they can make their buildings safer. Eric Tanner, CEO of transitional and skilled care specialist OnPointe, sees the crisis as a launching point...
Readmissions? How to avoid admission at all
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 05, 2018
Skilled nursing facilities would be wise to keep its patients in their homes and out of the hospital completely. That’s why it was intriguing to hear of a new model for Medicare beneficiaries who reside...
Skilled care operators feeling the pinch. Or should we say, pinches?
By
John O'Connor
Jul 02, 2018
“This is going to be the wave of the future.” If you happen to be a long-term care operator looking for words to live by, the above sentence is a pretty good choice.
HHS wants Kindred dual-eligible case dismissed
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 14, 2018
The federal government wants a court to toss Kindred Healthcare’s attempt to collect $10.1 million in dual-eligible payments, according to legal filings reported this week.
The 21st Century SNF: two paths forward
By
Anne Tumlinson
Jun 11, 2018
Many industry experts believe skilled nursing’s current marketshare challenges are temporary — that SNFs only have to hang on until demographic shifts kick in. But I worry about this strategy.
RCS-Done … Tech Support, please!
By
Renee Kinder
May 10, 2018
I was all ready for my presentation on RCS-I, and then I literally lost power and had the run yanked out from under me at the same time.
Skilled care operators might want to curb their PDPM enthusiasm
By
John O'Connor
May 07, 2018
If some operators are getting the PDPM tingly-dinglys, I’m experiencing something else: a sense of déjà vu.