Asking rates hit near record highs in all senior living segments … Governor announces $30M in loan repayment for healthcare professionals who serve Hawaii … Curana Health, Serviam launch Value-Based...
Kansas providers may face fee hike after audit reveals many wrongly paid cut-rate assessments
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Continuing care retirement communities and nursing homes in Kansas could face additional scrutiny — and in some cases, higher fees — after a recent audit from the Kansas Medicaid inspector general’s...
Discrimination based on height, weight now illegal in NYC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 20, 2023
It is now illegal in New York City for employers to discriminate based on height or weight requirements.
New law prohibits layoffs, wage and benefit cuts during ownership transitions
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 22, 2022
Companies that acquire nursing homes and other healthcare facilities will be required to preserve employee wages and benefits for at least four months during ownership transition under legislation signed...
Business briefs, Feb. 21
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 21, 2024
National HealthCare Corp. ends 2023 with 5.1% year-over-year increase in net operating revenues, grant income … Brightview program a BADGE of honor for employee growth, development … AHCA/NCAL’s...
$800,000 in scholarships to benefit students in accelerated BSN program
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 01, 2024
The state of Florida is providing funds for a scholarship program that will make 40 new scholarships available to nursing students at the University of Florida
Think California’s new pay transparency law doesn’t apply to your company? You might be wrong
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 05, 2023
Even employers that operate outside of California are required to follow the Golden State’s new pay transparency law, which went into effect Jan. 1, if there’s a chance they could fill open positions...
Governor reevaluates $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 12, 2024
In the wake of a projected $38 billion deficit, California Gov. Gavin Newson (D) is reevaluating an incremental minimum wage increase to $25 an hour for nursing homes, assisted living and other healthcare-related...
Minimum wage to increase to $25 for nursing home, assisted living workers in California
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 17, 2023
The minimum wage for nursing homes, assisted living and other healthcare workers in California will increase to $25 due to legislation signed into law Friday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
22 states to increase minimum wage on Jan. 1
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 13, 2023
Almost half of the states, along with 40 local jurisdictions, are set to ring in 2024 with increases to minimum wage, according to Polsinelli law firm.