AHCA, HHS seek quick timeline in federal staffing mandate case
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 13, 2024
The American Health Care Association, LeadingAge and four other parties in a federal lawsuit challenging the federal nursing home staffing mandate have told the case’s judge they expect a decision to...
Analytics firm takes on EHR giant PointClickCare in ‘life and death’ information sharing lawsuit
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 12, 2024
Real Time Medical Systems has asked a federal judge to force the nation’s largest post-acute EHR provider to keep its clients’ data accessible, saying information blocking “will cause needless patient...
Industry and legal experts are expressing confidence in a lawsuit filed last week that aims to kill a federal nursing home staffing mandate, with some boldly predicting a fairly straight-forward defeat...
Picketing workers seek receiver for troubled nursing home
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 11, 2023
A union representing workers at a nursing home already under investigation for fraud are calling on the state to place the facility in receivership, alleging that the owners are revoking workers’ healthcare...
Lack of SNF beds leads to hospital lawsuit against patients refusing discharge
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 21, 2023
A Catholic hospital system is suing patients who refused to leave its hospitals while awaiting post-acute placements, saying their refusal to be discharged amounted to trespassing.