Long-term care execs see modest salary increases: report … Providers clamor for innovation to head off “end-of-mission” conversations … Nursing homes sue state Medicaid program, claiming massive...
Spending on nursing homes, home care slows year over year
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 27, 2024
Between May 2023 and May 2024, overall healthcare costs grew by 3.4%, the fastest increase seen since December 2007, according to Altarum’s monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators brief, released Wednesday.
63-SNF Regency becomes new nonprofit, Wellsential Health
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 10, 2023
The Victoria, TX-based organization now known as Wellsential Health now is the largest family of nonprofit SNFs in Texas, according to the company.
State Supreme Court re-examines 8-year-old nursing home class action lawsuit
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 06, 2023
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday reopened a nearly decade-old class action lawsuit against a nursing home provider after the plaintiffs claimed that Judge Timothy Fox “repeatedly failed to follow...
Actions & Transactions, July 18
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 18, 2024
Capital Funding Group closes $23.6 million for refinancing of Delaware SNF … Carnegie at Washingtonian Center, a Kisco Signature community, begins business operations ahead of grand opening … Kaiser...
Bake sale-supported nursing home turns to assisted living to survive
By
Josh Henreckson
Apr 05, 2024
A Rhode Island nursing home that had turned to a grassroots funding campaign that included a resident-run bake sale to avoid closure is reworking one of its floors into a memory-care focused assisted...
Pressing questions about rural telehealth access and investments put innovation in danger
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jan 23, 2024
Questions remain about how much providers will be able to rely on telehealth, remote monitoring and other technologies to come in the years ahead — and whether the government will make the needed legal,...
Legislation aims to increase scrutiny of private equity healthcare acquisitions
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 27, 2024
Legislation introduced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) in the Golden State would give the attorney general oversight of private equity...
Staffing shortages at nursing homes continue: report
Mar 01, 2024
Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague US nursing homes, a new government report finds.