2 SNFs, 5 employees indicted on fraud charges … Home healthcare provider ordered to pay $1.5 million in back wages, damages, civil fines … Trilogy Health Services partners with Norton Healthcare to...
Business briefs, June 29
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 29, 2022
McKnight’s Tech Awards deadline is Thursday … HHS needs to improve communications for health IT breach reporting: GAO … EEOC adds non-binary ‘X’ gender marker to charge intake form … Green...
Business briefs, Oct. 28
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 28, 2021
Afghan resettlement efforts aid long-term care providers, AHCA / NCAL tells White House … President Biden calls on Congress to eliminate subminimum pay for disabled workers … Watercrest memory...
Long-term care leaders urge White House to intervene in anticompetitive staffing agency practices
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 27, 2022
Leaders from the country’s largest long-term care associations on Tuesday asked White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients for “assistance with an anticompetitive practice with certain...
Business briefs, Aug. 9
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2021
Brookdale announces COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff … Juniper Communities achieves 95% vaccination rate for staff, residents … Maine Veterans Home, Magnolia Manor earn National Quality Awards...
Business briefs, July 30
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 30, 2021
AHCA/NCAL backs mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for long-term care workers … Bipartisan bill would extend Provider Relief Fund spending deadline … Mississippi State Medical Association calls for vaccine...
New program aims to improve long-term care vaccination rates, care by building trust
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 13, 2022
Providers of skilled nursing and assisted living need to develop trust-building skills and practices to continue to increase vaccine uptake and staff member retention as well as improve infection prevention...
House committee discusses 7 bills aimed at ‘rebuilding pipeline of future workers’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2021
Seven current pieces of legislation are aimed at revitalizing the frontline workforce in healthcare, and legislators discussed them Tuesday at a House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing.
Worker shortage hits long-term care more than other healthcare sectors, report shows
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2022
Every sector in healthcare has felt the sting of the current worker shortage, but none more so than long-term care, according to a report issued this month by the Department of Health and Human Services...
Six Senate Democrats this week introduced the Nursing Home Improvement and Accountability Act of 2021, which offers more funding for facilities in exchange for industry reforms.