How bad are the huge pay gaps between agency and full-time staff nurses? This bad
By
Joe Bush
Dec 19, 2022
A state-by-state comparison of pay-rate disparities between agency nurses and their full-time counterparts is feeding the fury that disgruntled long-term care operators and other providers have felt during...
Potential staff mandate costs rocket upward when latest wages factored in
By
Joe Bush
Dec 16, 2022
The projected costs of meeting a possible nursing home staffing mandate have skyrocketed by $1.3 billion over the last five months, a report issued Thursday by accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen on behalf...
For-profit providers still on hot seat in final House COVID report
By
Joe Bush
Dec 12, 2022
Months after its first attack, a key House COVID subcommittee on Friday targeted five of the nation’s five largest for-profit nursing home companies over low staffing and wages and slow vaccine booster...
Defiant Sloan to nursing home critics: Address funding to tackle staffing challenge
By
Joe Bush
Dec 07, 2022
The leader of one the nation’s largest skilled nursing organizations Tuesday pushed back against a recent popular narrative about understaffing, reiterating concerns about Medicaid pay that continues...
Nursing home quality coalition makes first recommendations
By
Joe Bush
Dec 05, 2022
A distinguished group of nursing home experts issued their first recommendations Friday after a landmark report called for sweeping change in spring of 2022.
Provider advocates slam ‘unfair’ media take down of nursing home staffing compliance
By
Joe Bush
Dec 02, 2022
A major provider organization Thursday called out a newspaper’s national investigation into nursing home staffing as “unfair and mischaracterized.”
US News adds nursing home ownership tenure, weekend staffing, infection data to its ratings
By
Joe Bush
Nov 15, 2022
US News & World Report’s well-known nursing home ratings kicked up the heat on operators this year, adding information on ownership tenure, weekend staffing levels and infections.
Study isolates nursing home leaders’ unique COVID-era stressors
By
Joe Bush
Nov 10, 2022
Excessive feelings of guilt, extra infection control precautions, unprecedented long work hours and personal healthcare sacrifices were common among nursing home leaders during the height of the pandemic,...
Pharmacists want bigger role after providing pandemic staffing boost
By
Joe Bush
Nov 09, 2022
Pharmacists are yearning to expand on their success helping skilled nursing facilities during the pandemic, a top executive said Monday.
Nursing home telehealth ‘cliff’ avoided with pay rule adjustments
By
Joe Bush
Nov 03, 2022
Nursing home residents and their distant physicians got good telehealth news in the 2023 Physician Pay Rule issued Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.