‘We can’t wait’: Coalition gets $1.7 million to invest in scalable, transferable CNA workforce...
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 15, 2024
As the long-term care sector pushes to build workforce pipelines substantial enough to address severe labor shortages, one group is ramping up efforts to make those pipelines more effective.
State long-term care bill would fund workforce initiatives but stiffen provider penalties
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 12, 2024
Eight months after its passage through the Massachusetts State House, a bill to fund investments in the long-term care workforce and increase state oversight powers appears poised to pass the State Senate.
Consortium building new SNF to combat state’s rising hospital diversions
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Josh Henreckson
Jul 08, 2024
A new $70 million skilled nursing facility takes aim squarely at alleviating the type of hospital patient discharge backlogs that have increasingly plagued healthcare providers across the US. Limited short-term...
Building a coveted ‘destination workplace’ requires diverse investments, active listening to staff:...
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior care operators need to rely on a broad range of solutions, a panel of experts said
SNF staffing challenges need solutions to benefit entire healthcare continuum: experts
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 25, 2024
The hospital backlogs of elderly Medicare and Medicaid patients that spiked sharply in 2020 are likely here to stay unless innovative solutions are implemented in post-acute care and other rehabilitation...
State pushed for $103 million for nursing homes, greater resident funding
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 25, 2024
Advocates for long-term care providers in New Jersey and their residents are taking competing annual funding pleas to government leaders to the wire.
Once at the edge of closure, nation’s second-largest nursing home earns Medicare recertification
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 21, 2024
After fighting for years to improve its care quality and avoid closure, one of the nation’s largest nursing homes has achieved Medicare recertification — clearing a vital final hurdle for its future...
State Dept freezes healthcare worker visas while Workforce Resilience Act lingers in Congress
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Josh Henreckson
Jun 14, 2024
The Healthcare Workforce Coalition renewed its advocacy push to increase the number of immigrant nurses entering the US, calling on both chambers of Congress Friday to pass the Healthcare Workforce Resilience...
Nearly half of PA nursing home operators plan to close or sell at least one facility, signaling worsening...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 05, 2024
Pressures from high staffing requirements and lagging Medicaid reimbursement rates are reaching a new and concerning peak in Pennsylvania, according to provider surveys published by the largest for-profit...
GAO review of long-term care ombudsman programs eerily echoes providers’ own concerns
By
Josh Henreckson
May 24, 2024
Many of the same problems facing long-term care operators across the country have also increasingly arisen as obstacles for state long-term care ombudsman programs in recent years, according to a report...