Provider Relief Fund reporting portal opens … HCA completes majority stake purchase in Brookdale Health Care Services … Florida HCBS provider charged with Medicaid fraud … Online calculator can predict...
More news for Monday, Oct. 16
Oct 16, 2017
The insufficiency of Medicaid block grants: The example of Puerto Rico … CNN says drug used inappropriately on elderly with dementia … American Geriatrics Society renews call for bipartisan...
Paying for LTSS via Medicare would improve outcomes, lower costs: report
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 25, 2017
Paying for long-term services and supports through Medicare for some residents of independent and assisted living communities and seniors living at home would improve care and lower costs for the government...
Care infrastructure ‘vital for our economic prosperity,’ Commerce Secretary Raimondo says
By
Liza Berger
Jul 13, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Monday voiced her support for the Better Care Better Jobs Act, legislation currently under consideration in Congress that would increase Medicaid funding for...
More news for Wed., Sept. 14
Sep 13, 2016
Court says newspaper doesn’t have to release source’s identity in assisted living story … Community terminates workers’ employment after they use social media inappropriately …...
Business briefs, Oct. 7
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 07, 2022
AHCA ‘deeply saddened’ by expiration of temporary nurse aide waiver … Code of conduct must be clearly defined, consistently applied, NLRB warns … Majority of Americans want strong, sustainable...
Business briefs, March 20
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 20, 2024
OSHA challenge could reach Supreme Court this fall … 90-year-old nursing home guts skilled nursing amid ‘unsustainable’ Medicaid funding … State supreme court rules in favor of Brookdale over contested...
Business briefs, March 30
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 30, 2023
Medicaid a major challenge to providing affordable assisted living, NCAL says … $14.2 million destined for operators to sustain quality care, but some are denied … TruBlue Total House Care announces...
Nursing home could lose license over CPR and COVID-related allegations
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 16, 2022
A New Jersey nursing home is barred from accepting new admissions and is at risk of losing its state license following allegations of understaffing and resident abuse and neglect, NBC News reported.
Debates arise over who should foot the bill for nursing home worker testing
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 10, 2020
Regular COVID-19 testing of nursing home staff, who are the most likely to introduce the virus to a facility and spread it to residents, has been sanctioned by experts as one of the most important ways...