Nursing home operators call it low occupancy. Medicare insiders call it a declining census. Economists call it excess capacity.
Transforming a non-profit system
By
Betsy Rust
Betsy Rust
Nov 07, 2014
Caring for older adults is becoming increasingly important not only to the financial viability of long-term care owners and operators but also to hospitals and health systems. Just a few years ago, senior...
How SNFs are cutting costs without cutting back on care
By
Betsy Rust
Jun 29, 2018
As if managing the health of patients wasn’t difficult and time-consuming enough, skilled nursing facilities now have to do more to manage their increasingly complex businesses as well.