Pushing the boundaries of care and geography: Sun Mar’s changing regional reputation
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 05, 2024
Three years after joining Sun Mar Healthcare, President Josh Kochek is leaning on years of perspective from the other side of the dealmaking table to expand and transform the California brand.
Ensign, Cascadia and Sun Mar execs: Employee-led companies positioned to maximize opportunities
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 19, 2024
Giving employees more of a role in leading their companies — and acting on both their bright ideas and their criticisms — will help shepherd quality skilled nursing providers as the sector rapidly...
Wait-and-see staffing rule exemptions meant to ‘safeguard’ residents: CMS
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2024
Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Aug. 4
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Aug 04, 2022
Data submission for AHRQ SOPS nursing home survey now open … Alzheimer’s Association wants clinicians to share outcomes data on patients receiving new Alzheimer’s drugs and therapies … One in 7...
Long COVID not as prevalent in 2022 as previously estimated, CDC says
By
Kristen Fischer
Sep 28, 2023
New survey data finds that long COVID was less prevalent in 2022 compared to other estimates previously recorded.
Director of nursing survey reveals 36% rate of resident falls associated with urinary incontinence
Jul 18, 2022
A new survey has identified multiple aspects of urinary incontinence burden and management in long-term care.
Survey: U.S. neurologists would prescribe Leqembi if fully approved
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 12, 2023
A “healthy proportion” of surveyed neurologists have already begun prescribing the treatment, and nearly all said they planned to do so if traditional FDA approval is granted.
Prospective nursing students say they’re academically unprepared to pursue career
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 12, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an interest in nursing careers, but many prospective nurses feel academically unprepared to pursue education toward that goal, a new survey finds.
Workforce woes seen worsening
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2023
One in three skilled nursing operators in a recent industry survey said their workforce levels worsened over the previous year.
Another survey; another big, bad, sad number
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2022
I spent nearly a month this summer examining your reflections on working in nursing homes. I read through nurse leaders’ comments about dissatisfaction with pay, the decreasing meaning in their jobs...