‘Trust’ will help nursing homes weather ‘incredible storm’ of reform and pay cuts
Apr 19, 2022
Thanks to an enormous proposed Medicare pay cut from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, plus the Biden administration’s sweeping new plans for nursing home reform, operators find themselves...
‘We don’t want to be abandoned again’: Providers fear federal COVID support will go away with PHE
May 24, 2022
Nursing home providers are afraid the support the industry has received during the COVID-19 pandemic will be non-existent once the public health emergency declaration comes to a close — despite a historic...
Setting the Record Straight on the White House’s Nursing Home Reform Package
Apr 28, 2022
[Partner Content] In this episode, we’ll hear from Mark Parkinson firsthand on his specific request to have Congress take additional steps to ensure the safety and protection of America’s most vulnerable....
Post-acute providers discovering ways to bring better data to partnerships
By
John Hall
Dec 05, 2018
The skilled nursing side of the post-acute care industry has worked hard in recent years to shed its outlier image among other sectors of healthcare. Under the evolving landscape of reform, it’s beginning...
New short-cycle law: Is it worth the pain?
By
John Andrews
Feb 01, 2011
Long-term care pharmacists will have to adjust to shorter dispensation cycles
Lynn Hood: Open-heart specialist
By
Emma Baumgartel
Sep 01, 2021
A tornado struck Connecticut when Lynn M. Hood was an emergency medical technician in high school, and she found herself assisting in one of her first emergency disasters. Since then, she has continued...