Overall number of clinicians in nursing homes nearly doubles
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2022
Nursing home operators have not only admitted an increasingly frail number of patients, they’ve also hired a correspondingly larger pool of clinicians to treat them, according to a decade-long research...
Providers are not reporting all falls on the MDS: study
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 02, 2020
A new study suggests that nursing home providers could be vastly underreporting major-injury falls in the Minimum Data Set, which the Nursing Home Compare website uses to report nursing home performance.
CMS to update preadmission resident screening demands
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 01, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed in February that it is in the process of revising the Preadmission Screening and Resident Review regulations. It would be the rule’s first major...