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Nursing homes that use tactics such as centralized recruiting, a consistent “red carpet culture” and creative benefits programs will have a leg up in today’s challenging long-term care staffing environment. [...]

Long-term care would not be at the top of most lists of likely childrens’ book topics. But that didn’t stop author Jenny Abeling from vividly portraying the daily lives of [...]

Nursing homes are on the frontier of new care models and technology solutions that have the potential to save billions of dollars in healthcare costs. That was the consensus from [...]

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The untimely death of a Connecticut nursing home resident in September was the result of mistakenly applying a roommate’s do-not-resuscitate order, alleges a lawsuit filed by that resident’s daughter last [...]

A new partnership between technology company Circadia Health and 81 skilled nursing facilities operated by Ciena Healthcare aims to significantly improve preventive care and reduce preventable rehospitalizations. Circadia’s C100 remote [...]

For almost as long as there has been a Buena Vista Care Center in Santa Barbara, CA, Miguel Pulido has been there — making sure the residents of the nursing [...]

The former CEO of a healthcare administrative services company was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for failing to pay more than [...]

The New Jersey Department of Health has used an expedited process to implement new financial transparency rules for nursing homes — notably, requiring that owner-certified financial disclosures be audited by [...]

A report from the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman in Oregon has called for an independent audit of the state’s Department of Human Services, arguing that the regulatory body [...]

A final rule announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Thursday revised the appeals process for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who have been denied coverage. The new rule should [...]

A judge placed a Boston skilled nursing facility in receivership Wednesday, answering an unusual call for that emergency step by residents and their families. Two residents’ family members filed the [...]

A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a https://www.mcknights.com/news/losing-100k-a-month-a-50-year-old-nursing-home-is-turning-to-bake-sales-public-pleas-to-cover-costs/ to avoid closure has announced a new plan to stabilize finances and remain [...]

New analysis of US Department of Labor data shows that large unions such as the SEIU were able to leverage heightened labor activity to recruit new workers in 2023. In [...]

Leaders of the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Department of Health have called on state lawmakers to pump $7.5 million more for nursing home funding into [...]

A new grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services will help enhance geriatric care training for the long-term care workforce, according to the leaders of the Geriatrics [...]

Many might not think of a nursing home as the most likely place to pick up a new art hobby, but the residents of Sanford Health Sylvan Court have been [...]

While the long-term care sector braces for the announcement of a final nursing home staffing mandate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, new analysis suggests that optimizing the [...]

An Arizona long-term care provider facing a quarter-million-dollar penalty for alleged HIPAA infractions converted that judgment into a settlement for just one-seventh that amount after a diligent defense of its [...]

UnitedHealth Group has reactivated core systems that were targeted by the late-February cyberattack against Change Healthcare and called on insurers to return to the platform to speed up the claims [...]

Implementing a wide variety of innovative technology and data tools is vital to the long-term care sector’s future success. A panel of top sector leaders agreed that currently isn’t being [...]

HHS https://www.mcknightshomecare.com/hhs-extends-temporary-medicaid-enrollment-period-to-ease-coverage-disruption/ to ease coverage disruption … Service https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/news/business-daily-news/rates-for-nursing-homes-in-home-care-down-report/?elq=2fd8bbd8f9114fa2b75e2491697e3cf8&elqCampaignId=5676&elqTrackId=ed06b8515e494f0cb230d200ab34284e&elqaid=8679&elqat=1&hmEmail&sha256email=e675ce9740472e504153662f05779a090e677309784d25b62891870ee94cbc61, in-home care down: report … Rhode Island latest state to https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/28/ri-granny-cam-bill-would-allow-surveillance-cameras-in-nursing-home-rooms/73117396007/ … Kaiser Permanente https://www.modernhealthcare.com/providers/kaiser-permanente-pace-habitat-health?utm_source=modern-healthcare-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240327&utm_content=hero-headline with investment [...]

Consumer advocates cheered when the New Jersey State Comptroller recently suspended four nursing homes from Medicaid — calling the enforcement tactic a “model for nursing home enforcement nationwide.” Provider leaders [...]

As workforce challenges continue to hound long-term care providers, sector experts increasingly point to immigration reform as a vital step on the path toward long-awaited stability. The healthcare sector’s existing [...]

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Nursing homes have historically had little leverage in negotiations with Medicare Advantage plans, even as MA has come to cover an ever-larger number of skilled nursing beneficiaries. The key for [...]

Nurse assessment coordinators are a vital part of ensuring a compliant physician certification process, even when they aren’t directly involved in the minutiae of that process. That’s according to industry [...]

Facing a harsher regulatory environment from the state and federal governments in recent years, top long-term care leaders called for more collaboration and measures that work to improve care quality [...]

Court https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report/nursing-home-software-maker-properly-denied-3-5-million-refund-24?context=search&index=0 software developer $3.5 million refund … Bipartisan bill would https://www.alz.org/news/2024/house-aadapt-act-project-echo-dementia-workforce … Researchers https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1038340 related to Alzheimer’s [...]

The long-term care sector is recovering well from the worst challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, optimistic top leaders said. But some problems that began during the pandemic have only worsened [...]

An organization dedicated to helping seniors find care issued a report Tuesday raising alarm about the number of nursing home abuse citations in 2023, but senior care leaders say a [...]

Faced with steep Medicaid reimbursement shortfalls, one 90-year-old facility believes its only way forward is to cut back more than half of its available long-term care beds. Leaders of Scandinavian [...]

McKnight’s Long-Term Care News has been named a finalist in two 2024 Jesse H. Neal Awards categories: Best Commentary and Best News Coverage. Executive Editor James M. Berklan was short-listed [...]

New York long-term care providers are one big step closer to making up Medicaid funding shortfalls 16 years in the making. In deliberations for the state’s fiscal year 2024-25 budget, [...]

Today’s seniors and young adults may have grown up in completely different eras of music and media, but one growing program is proving that art can be a powerful bridge [...]

Nursing home residents would acquire new legal protection against retaliation from staff and management after making complaints about a facility under a bill now on the Illinois senate floor. The [...]

Advanced practice clinicians who specialize in skilled nursing care help reduce the use of unnecessary care at end of life, according to new study results released Friday in JAMA Network [...]

The state government’s response to the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic left New Jersey nursing homes confused and without adequate supplies, according to a new independent analysis. The report [...]

With ongoing federal Medicare reimbursements for telehealth set to expire at the end of the year, a bipartisan push is underway in the US House of Representatives to make those [...]

A firm providing management and consulting for nursing homes across four Southern states successfully argued for the dismissal of legal discrimination claims brought against it by nine Black nursing home [...]

Facing stagnant pay and the inability to attract the staff it badly needed, the leadership of a skilled nursing facility in Red Cloud, NE, announced plans in late February to [...]

A partnership with a local workforce board has helped a Massachusetts nursing home secure a $125,000 grant to bolster its workforce pipeline. The funding maneuver is an example of how [...]

What started as a simple idea to add a special touch of decoration for a group of long-term care residents quickly escalated into something much more recently. Ultimately, it became [...]

Nursing homes in Florida can expect a record jump in Medicaid funding to kick in later this year, thanks to the fiscal year 2024-25 budget the state Legislature has passed. [...]

Federal regulators are opening pathways to shore up nursing homes’ finances in the wake of a cyberattack that has impacted Medicare and Medicaid billing nationwide. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare [...]

Nearly one out of every two nurses experienced workplace violence last year, according to a healthcare workforce survey recently released by Vivian Health. That number is even higher — fully [...]

Financial troubles forced a nursing home to close in the wake of overzealous regulation and a cyberattack that impacted nursing homes across the US, facility leaders said days after an [...]

As much as 63% of nursing home profits in Illinois were hidden from state regulators using related party transactions in 2019, according to the results of a new study from [...]

A Delaware bill would open nursing home directors and managers to felony charges if they fail to “promptly take corrective action” after the discovery of resident abuse or neglect that [...]

Around 1,000 direct care and support staff workers staged a coordinated, one-day strike at 12 unrelated Minnesota nursing homes Tuesday — demanding a $25 nursing home minimum wage, better benefits [...]