Growing need for care outside hospital is opportunity for senior living, skilled nursing providers, experts...
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 09, 2023
About a third of the $4.4 trillion spent last year on healthcare in the United States was from the people over the age of 65, “and the estimate is that this group will represent half of all healthcare...
Annual nursing home, home healthcare spending more than double the recent rate of healthcare overall
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 25, 2022
Nursing home spending has increased 10.2% year over year; home healthcare, by 10.5%. released Friday. That’s nearly double the overall national health spending rate, which grew in August 2022 by 4.9%,...
SNF penalty change takes ‘precious resources’ from resident care, association says
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 30, 2021
Nursing homes could see greater penalties for safety violations now that a Trump administration policy limiting such penalties has been reversed, and one industry association says resident care could suffer...
Feds include nursing homes, businesses in new COVID vaccination effort
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2022
President Biden on Tuesday called on more Americans, especially older adults, to get the updated COVID-19 booster shot ahead of upcoming holidays. In response, Albertson’s grocery store pharmacies and...
‘Nothing less than a crisis’ as 45 percent of SNFs cite serious financial issues in AHCA survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 06, 2024
Forty-five percent of skilled nursing facility participants in a new survey said they are “either operating in the red or barely breaking even.”
SNF operators to continue to see profit margins shrink: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 23, 2023
Skilled nursing facilities operators should expect their profit margins to continue to shrink over the next four years, even as other segments of long-term care see modest gains. That’s according to...
Fitch offers bleak outlook for life plan communities for 2024
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 05, 2023
Continuing care retirement / life plan communities are facing “fierce economic headwinds” heading into next year, according to a report released Monday by Fitch Rating
Bill aims to privatize annual nursing home, assisted living inspections
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 08, 2023
Proposed legislation before the Arizona Legislature, if passed, would privatize annual inspections of skilled nursing facilities and assisted living communities by creating a third-party entity to make...
Lack of data makes it difficult to address workforce challenges: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 24, 2022
Data collection has not kept pace with the changing pace of the direct care workforce, complicating policymaker and employer efforts to address the challenges workers face, according to a new report from...
New monetary penalties for SNFs in California is ‘major policy change’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 03, 2021
Skilled nursing facilities in California will face much higher fines for not complying with transfer discharge hearing decisions under a new bill signed into law last week by Gov. Gaivin Newsom (D).