Vote for incumbent directors, NHI advises in supplemental proxy
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 09, 2024
National Health Investors is asking stockholders to reject an activist investor’s recommendation to not re-elect two of three people up for re-election to the board of the Murfreesboro, TN-based real...
‘Ladders and lattices’ provide career opportunities for CNAs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 10, 2024
Providers would be wise to develop “ladders and lattices” to help certified nursing assistants advance in their healthcare careers, JAMDA, the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, reported.
Social Security, Medicare solvency improves slightly, but ‘significant financing issues’...
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 07, 2024
The Treasury Department — with the departments of Health and Human Services and Labor, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration — released the annual Social...
14 states will share ways to expand direct care workforce
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 07, 2024
Fourteen states have been selected to participate in a program through which they can share information about proven models for expanding the direct care workforce.
Program trains high school students to graduate as CNAs
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2024
A high school program in San Diego is striving to train certified nursing assistants so they are available for work as soon as they graduate.
Federal government to investigate private equity’s influence on nursing homes, HCBS, home health
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 07, 2024
The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and Health and Human Services Department have announced plans to jointly investigate private equity’s influence on healthcare.
Business Daily, March 14
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 14, 2024
MO senior living communities, nursing homes can show availability to consumers via new dashboard … “Currently taxed” retirement accounts like Roth IRAs last longer than “deferred tax” accounts,...
Debt is ‘unwelcome traveling companion’ in retirement
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 09, 2024
Not only do many older adults enter retirement with inadequate savings to sustain them in their golden years, upwards of 60% of them bring debt along as an “unwelcome traveling companion,” certified...
Policymakers, providers must take steps to prevent staff mass turnover, researchers say
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 29, 2024
Employment levels in the skilled nursing industry are lagging compared with other parts of the healthcare continuum, noted the authors of a study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical...
Eleventh hour spending bill includes $117 billion for HHS
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 26, 2024
A $1.2 trillion spending bill approved by the Senate early Saturday morning includes $117 billion for Department of Health and Human Services operations. This sum allocates $4.1 billion for the administrative...