Officials won’t mandate second booster shot for nursing home staff … Medicare Part B recipients eligible for 8 free OTC COVID-19 tests per month … FDA releases updated dosing information for COVID-19...
Closure plans filed for one-fourth of unique specialty care provider’s facilities
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Danielle Brown
Apr 05, 2022
After months of “sounding the alarm,” Pennsylvania’s long-term care industry will be losing one of just four facilities that provide specialized care. Officials have filed closure plans with the...
Signature touts pandemic successes amid nursing home reform and criticism talk
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Danielle Brown
Apr 05, 2022
A major nursing home operator lauded its providers’ success responding to COVID-19 even as questions about nursing home quality of care overall take center stage on the federal level.
CMS chief holds second 1-on-1 with providers as reform looms
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 04, 2022
Leaders of several nonprofit skilled nursing providers warned Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure about the potential impact of “unfunded mandates” and “counterproductive”...
Officials won’t mandate second booster shot for nursing home staff
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 04, 2022
Nursing home employees in Connecticut won’t be required to get a second COVID-19 booster shot, state officials said late last week.
States must rethink nursing home financing to drive transition to managed care: report
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Danielle Brown
Apr 04, 2022
States must change the way they pay for nursing home services as they transition to managed care, and luckily they have multiple options to do so, according to a new report released Friday by Advancing...
Dementia soars among U.S. adults at end of life, study finds
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 04, 2022
About half of older U.S. adults receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia shortly before their death — a number that has spiked by more than 34% in two decades, according to a...
Nursing home requirements unchanged after 2nd booster recommendation: LeadingAge
Apr 04, 2022
Most requirements, including CMS’s vaccination mandate and requirements for routine testing and quarantine remain unchanged for nursing homes, the industry advocate explains.
Clinical briefs for Monday, April 4
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 03, 2022
Senior living calls for help as second COVID-19 booster dose receives green light … COVID-19 symptoms have no impact on transmission risk, first “human challenge” trial finds … CDC: Heart...
Reforms could start sooner than one year, Becerra says in ‘monumental’ nursing home meeting
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
The federal government will meet or exceed a goal of implementing key nursing home reform measures within a year, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday.